revlog: have an explicit "pack_header" method
Having to pass the version header when retrieving the binary version of every
single entry is a bit silly. So we extract that special logic in its own method.
This also prepare the move to newer revlog format, not storing the header within
an actual entry…
Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D10510
Tests about metadataonlyctx
$ hg init
$ echo A > A
$ hg commit -A A -m 'Add A'
$ echo B > B
$ hg commit -A B -m 'Add B'
$ hg rm A
$ echo C > C
$ echo B2 > B
$ hg add C -q
$ hg commit -m 'Remove A'
$ cat > metaedit.py <<EOF
> from __future__ import absolute_import
> from mercurial import context, pycompat, registrar
> cmdtable = {}
> command = registrar.command(cmdtable)
> @command(b'metaedit')
> def metaedit(ui, repo, arg):
> # Modify commit message to "FOO"
> with repo.wlock(), repo.lock(), repo.transaction(b'metaedit'):
> old = repo[b'.']
> kwargs = dict(s.split(b'=', 1) for s in arg.split(b';'))
> if b'parents' in kwargs:
> kwargs[b'parents'] = map(int, kwargs[b'parents'].split(b','))
> new = context.metadataonlyctx(repo, old,
> **pycompat.strkwargs(kwargs))
> new.commit()
> EOF
$ hg --config extensions.metaedit=$TESTTMP/metaedit.py metaedit 'text=Changed'
$ hg log -r tip
changeset: 3:ad83e9e00ec9
tag: tip
parent: 1:3afb7afe6632
user: test
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
summary: Changed
$ hg --config extensions.metaedit=$TESTTMP/metaedit.py metaedit 'parents=0' 2>&1 | egrep '^RuntimeError'
RuntimeError: can't reuse the manifest: its p1 doesn't match the new ctx p1
$ hg --config extensions.metaedit=$TESTTMP/metaedit.py metaedit 'user=foo <foo@example.com>'
$ hg log -r tip
changeset: 4:1f86eaeca92b
tag: tip
parent: 1:3afb7afe6632
user: foo <foo@example.com>
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
summary: Remove A