# HG changeset patch
# User Pierre-Yves David <pierre-yves.david@octobus.net>
# Date 2021-07-27 17:36:20
# Node ID 59bc92a7c60fc8e90d6e71cf6ea8f3331f3c67e7
# Parent  17211649bac2ea248fff8d9745678377057a5143

store: document the decoding discrepancy in store.py

This will help future people that might be looking into this.

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D11220

diff --git a/mercurial/store.py b/mercurial/store.py
--- a/mercurial/store.py
+++ b/mercurial/store.py
@@ -569,6 +569,11 @@ class encodedstore(basicstore):
         self.vfs = vfsmod.filtervfs(vfs, encodefilename)
         self.opener = self.vfs
 
+    # note: topfiles would also need a decode phase. It is just that in
+    # practice we do not have any file outside of `data/` that needs encoding.
+    # However that might change so we should probably add a test and encoding
+    # decoding for it too. see issue6548
+
     def datafiles(self, matcher=None):
         for t, a, b, size in super(encodedstore, self).datafiles():
             try: