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help: document bundle specifications I softly formalized the concept of a "bundle specification" a while ago when I was working on clone bundles and stream clone bundles and wanted a more robust way to define what exactly is in a bundle file. The concept has existed for a while. Since it is part of the clone bundles feature and exposed to the user via the "-t" argument to `hg bundle`, it is something we need to support for the long haul. After the 4.1 release, I heard a few people comment that they didn't realize you could generate zstd bundles with `hg bundle`. I'm partially to blame for not documenting it in bundle's docstring. Additionally, I added a hacky, experimental feature for controlling the compression level of bundles in 76104a4899ad. As the commit message says, I went with a quick and dirty solution out of time constraints. Furthermore, I wanted to eventually store this configuration in the "bundlespec" so it could be made more flexible. Given: a) bundlespecs are here to stay b) we don't have great documentation over what they are, despite being a user-facing feature c) the list of available compression engines and their behavior isn't exposed d) we need an extensible place to modify behavior of compression engines I want to move forward with formalizing bundlespecs as a user-facing feature. This commit does that by introducing a "bundlespec" help page. Leaning on the just-added compression engine documentation and API, the topic also conveniently lists available compression engines and details about them. This makes features like zstd bundle compression more discoverable. e.g. you can now `hg help -k zstd` and it lists the "bundlespec" topic.

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hg
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Mercurial source code management system
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:Author: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
:Organization: Mercurial
:Manual section: 1
:Manual group: Mercurial Manual
.. contents::
:backlinks: top
:class: htmlonly
:depth: 1
Synopsis
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**hg** *command* [*option*]... [*argument*]...
Description
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The **hg** command provides a command line interface to the Mercurial
system.
Command Elements
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files...
indicates one or more filename or relative path filenames; see
`File Name Patterns`_ for information on pattern matching
path
indicates a path on the local machine
revision
indicates a changeset which can be specified as a changeset
revision number, a tag, or a unique substring of the changeset
hash value
repository path
either the pathname of a local repository or the URI of a remote
repository.
.. include:: hg.1.gendoc.txt
Files
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``/etc/mercurial/hgrc``, ``$HOME/.hgrc``, ``.hg/hgrc``
This file contains defaults and configuration. Values in
``.hg/hgrc`` override those in ``$HOME/.hgrc``, and these override
settings made in the global ``/etc/mercurial/hgrc`` configuration.
See |hgrc(5)|_ for details of the contents and format of these
files.
``.hgignore``
This file contains regular expressions (one per line) that
describe file names that should be ignored by **hg**. For details,
see |hgignore(5)|_.
``.hgsub``
This file defines the locations of all subrepositories, and
tells where the subrepository checkouts came from. For details, see
:hg:`help subrepos`.
``.hgsubstate``
This file is where Mercurial stores all nested repository states. *NB: This
file should not be edited manually.*
``.hgtags``
This file contains changeset hash values and text tag names (one
of each separated by spaces) that correspond to tagged versions of
the repository contents. The file content is encoded using UTF-8.
``.hg/last-message.txt``
This file is used by :hg:`commit` to store a backup of the commit message
in case the commit fails.
``.hg/localtags``
This file can be used to define local tags which are not shared among
repositories. The file format is the same as for ``.hgtags``, but it is
encoded using the local system encoding.
Some commands (e.g. revert) produce backup files ending in ``.orig``,
if the ``.orig`` file already exists and is not tracked by Mercurial,
it will be overwritten.
Bugs
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Probably lots, please post them to the mailing list (see Resources_
below) when you find them.
See Also
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|hgignore(5)|_, |hgrc(5)|_
Author
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Written by Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Resources
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Main Web Site: https://mercurial-scm.org/
Source code repository: https://www.mercurial-scm.org/repo/hg
Mailing list: https://www.mercurial-scm.org/mailman/listinfo/mercurial/
Copying
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Copyright (C) 2005-2017 Matt Mackall.
Free use of this software is granted under the terms of the GNU General
Public License version 2 or any later version.
.. include:: common.txt