A repo with unknown revlogv2 requirement string cannot be opened
$ hg init invalidreq
$ cd invalidreq
$ echo exp-revlogv2.unknown >> .hg/requires
$ hg log
abort: repository requires features unknown to this Mercurial: exp-revlogv2.unknown!
(see https://mercurial-scm.org/wiki/MissingRequirement for more information)
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$ cd ..
Can create and open repo with revlog v2 requirement
$ cat >> $HGRCPATH << EOF
> [experimental]
> revlogv2 = enable-unstable-format-and-corrupt-my-data
> EOF
$ hg init empty-repo
$ cd empty-repo
$ cat .hg/requires
dotencode
exp-revlogv2.0
fncache
store
$ hg log
Unknown flags to revlog are rejected
>>> with open('.hg/store/00changelog.i', 'wb') as fh:
... fh.write(b'\x00\x04\xde\xad')
$ hg log
abort: unknown flags (0x04) in version 57005 revlog 00changelog.i!
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$ cd ..
Writing a simple revlog v2 works
$ hg init simple
$ cd simple
$ touch foo
$ hg -q commit -A -m initial
$ hg log
changeset: 0:96ee1d7354c4
tag: tip
user: test
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
summary: initial
Header written as expected (changelog always disables generaldelta)
$ f --hexdump --bytes 4 .hg/store/00changelog.i
.hg/store/00changelog.i:
0000: 00 01 de ad |....|
$ f --hexdump --bytes 4 .hg/store/data/foo.i
.hg/store/data/foo.i:
0000: 00 03 de ad |....|