changeset 46303:a18e256c4d3b

persistent-nodemap: document the `devel.persistent-nodemap` option What it does is not obvious. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D9753
author Pierre-Yves David <pierre-yves.david@octobus.net>
date Thu, 14 Jan 2021 00:33:40 +0100
parents 599d247af600
children 04da2ef8b106
files mercurial/configitems.py
diffstat 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/mercurial/configitems.py	Fri Jan 15 23:47:16 2021 +0100
+++ b/mercurial/configitems.py	Thu Jan 14 00:33:40 2021 +0100
@@ -635,6 +635,8 @@
     b'legacy.exchange',
     default=list,
 )
+# When True, revlogs use a special reference version of the nodemap, that is not
+# performant but is "known" to behave properly.
 coreconfigitem(
     b'devel',
     b'persistent-nodemap',