# HG changeset patch # User Kim Alvefur # Date 2017-02-28 14:19:08 # Node ID 167b69ccc62c29579089c6b2939ff05b4c647be7 # Parent 9f169b7f53d58e09ec427a5aa1917a778f036436 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. diff --git a/mercurial/help/internals/revlogs.txt b/mercurial/help/internals/revlogs.txt --- a/mercurial/help/internals/revlogs.txt +++ b/mercurial/help/internals/revlogs.txt @@ -108,9 +108,9 @@ 12-15 (4 bytes) 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)