Mercurial > hg
changeset 31214:167b69ccc62c
help: align description of 'base rev' with reality [issue5488]
The text about revlogs seems to be wrong about -1 being used to indicate
the start of a delta chain. Attempt to correct this.
| author | Kim Alvefur <zash@zash.se> |
|---|---|
| date | Tue, 28 Feb 2017 15:19:08 +0100 |
| parents | 9f169b7f53d5 |
| children | 15c998528c36 |
| files | mercurial/help/internals/revlogs.txt |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/mercurial/help/internals/revlogs.txt Wed Mar 01 18:37:34 2017 -0800 +++ b/mercurial/help/internals/revlogs.txt Tue Feb 28 15:19:08 2017 +0100 @@ -108,9 +108,9 @@ 16-19 (4 bytes) Base or previous revision this revision's delta was produced against. - -1 means this revision holds full text (as opposed to a delta). - For generaldelta repos, this is the previous revision in the delta - chain. For non-generaldelta repos, this is the base or first + This revision holds full text (as opposed to a delta) if it points to + itself. For generaldelta repos, this is the previous revision in the + delta chain. For non-generaldelta repos, this is the base or first revision in the delta chain. 20-23 (4 bytes)