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sslutil: config option to specify TLS protocol version Currently, Mercurial will use TLS 1.0 or newer when connecting to remote servers, selecting the highest TLS version supported by both peers. On older Pythons, only TLS 1.0 is available. On newer Pythons, TLS 1.1 and 1.2 should be available. Security-minded people may want to not take any risks running TLS 1.0 (or even TLS 1.1). This patch gives those people a config option to explicitly control which TLS versions Mercurial should use. By providing this option, one can require newer TLS versions before they are formally deprecated by Mercurial/Python/OpenSSL/etc and lower their security exposure. This option also provides an easy mechanism to change protocol policies in Mercurial. If there is a 0-day and TLS 1.0 is completely broken, we can act quickly without changing much code. Because setting the minimum TLS protocol is something you'll likely want to do globally, this patch introduces a global config option under [hostsecurity] for that purpose. wrapserversocket() has been taught a hidden config option to define the explicit protocol to use. This is queried in this function and not passed as an argument because I don't want to expose this dangerous option as part of the Python API. There is a risk someone could footgun themselves. But the config option is a devel option, has a warning comment, and I doubt most people are using `hg serve` to run a production HTTPS server (I would have something not Mercurial/Python handle TLS). If this is problematic, we can go back to using a custom extension in tests to coerce the server into bad behavior.

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Mercurial's default format for showing changes between two versions of
a file is compatible with the unified format of GNU diff, which can be
used by GNU patch and many other standard tools.
While this standard format is often enough, it does not encode the
following information:
- executable status and other permission bits
- copy or rename information
- changes in binary files
- creation or deletion of empty files
Mercurial also supports the extended diff format from the git VCS
which addresses these limitations. The git diff format is not produced
by default because a few widespread tools still do not understand this
format.
This means that when generating diffs from a Mercurial repository
(e.g. with :hg:`export`), you should be careful about things like file
copies and renames or other things mentioned above, because when
applying a standard diff to a different repository, this extra
information is lost. Mercurial's internal operations (like push and
pull) are not affected by this, because they use an internal binary
format for communicating changes.
To make Mercurial produce the git extended diff format, use the --git
option available for many commands, or set 'git = True' in the [diff]
section of your configuration file. You do not need to set this option
when importing diffs in this format or using them in the mq extension.