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extdata: abort if external command exits with non-zero status (BC)
Per the last discussion, this is more reliable and consistent way than
suppressing an error. For grep, erroring out might be inconvenient, but
for curl, non-zero exit status should be detected. The latter wouldn't be
possible if non-zero status is ignored.
https://www.mercurial-scm.org/pipermail/mercurial-devel/2017-October/105727.html
author | Yuya Nishihara <yuya@tcha.org> |
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date | Sun, 01 Oct 2017 12:21:50 +0100 |
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The censor system allows retroactively removing content from files. Actually censoring a node requires using the censor extension, but the functionality for handling censored nodes is partially in core. Censored nodes in a filelog have the flag ``REVIDX_ISCENSORED`` set, and the contents of the censored node are replaced with a censor tombstone. For historical reasons, the tombstone is packed in the filelog metadata field ``censored``. This allows censored nodes to be (mostly) safely transmitted through old formats like changegroup versions 1 and 2. When using changegroup formats older than 3, the receiver is required to re-add the ``REVIDX_ISCENSORED`` flag when storing the revision. This depends on the ``censored`` metadata key never being used for anything other than censoring revisions, which is true as of January 2017. Note that the revlog flag is the authoritative marker of a censored node: the tombstone should only be consulted when looking for a reason a node was censored or when revlog flags are unavailable as mentioned above. The tombstone data is a free-form string. It's expected that users of censor will want to record the reason for censoring a node in the tombstone. Censored nodes must be able to fit in the size of the content being censored.