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changeset 29859:a1092e2d70a3
help: internals topic for wire protocol
The Mercurial wire protocol is under-documented. This includes a lack
of source docstrings and comments as well as pages on the official
wiki.
This patch adds the beginnings of "internals" documentation on the
wire protocol.
The documentation should have nearly complete coverage on the
lower-level parts of the protocol, such as the different transport
mechanims, how commands and arguments are sent, capabilities, and,
of course, the commands themselves.
As part of writing this documentation, I discovered a number of
deficiencies in the protocol and bugs in the implementation. I've
started sending patches for some of the issues. I hope to send a lot
more.
This patch starts with the scaffolding for a new internals page.
| author | Gregory Szorc <gregory.szorc@gmail.com> |
|---|---|
| date | Mon, 22 Aug 2016 19:46:39 -0700 |
| parents | 33461139c31c |
| children | b42c26b0a785 |
| files | contrib/wix/help.wxs mercurial/help.py mercurial/help/internals/wireprotocol.txt tests/test-help.t |
| diffstat | 4 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/contrib/wix/help.wxs Thu Aug 18 15:13:56 2016 +0900 +++ b/contrib/wix/help.wxs Mon Aug 22 19:46:39 2016 -0700 @@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ <File Id="internals.changegroups.txt" Name="changegroups.txt" /> <File Id="internals.requirements.txt" Name="requirements.txt" /> <File Id="internals.revlogs.txt" Name="revlogs.txt" /> + <File Id="internals.wireprotocol.txt" Name="wireprotocol.txt" /> </Component> </Directory>
--- a/mercurial/help.py Thu Aug 18 15:13:56 2016 +0900 +++ b/mercurial/help.py Mon Aug 22 19:46:39 2016 -0700 @@ -192,6 +192,8 @@ loaddoc('requirements', subdir='internals')), (['revlogs'], _('Revision Logs'), loaddoc('revlogs', subdir='internals')), + (['wireprotocol'], _('Wire Protocol'), + loaddoc('wireprotocol', subdir='internals')), ]) def internalshelp(ui):
--- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/mercurial/help/internals/wireprotocol.txt Mon Aug 22 19:46:39 2016 -0700 @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +The Mercurial wire protocol is a request-response based protocol +with multiple wire representations. + +Each request is modeled as a command name, a dictionary of arguments, and +optional raw input. Command arguments and their types are intrinsic +properties of commands. So is the response type of the command. This means +clients can't always send arbitrary arguments to servers and servers can't +return multiple response types. + +The protocol is synchronous and does not support multiplexing (concurrent +commands).
--- a/tests/test-help.t Thu Aug 18 15:13:56 2016 +0900 +++ b/tests/test-help.t Mon Aug 22 19:46:39 2016 -0700 @@ -933,6 +933,7 @@ changegroups Changegroups requirements Repository Requirements revlogs Revision Logs + wireprotocol Wire Protocol sub-topics can be accessed @@ -2895,6 +2896,13 @@ </td><td> Revision Logs </td></tr> + <tr><td> + <a href="/help/internals.wireprotocol"> + wireprotocol + </a> + </td><td> + Wire Protocol + </td></tr>