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rust-node: binary Node ID and conversion utilities...
rust-node: binary Node ID and conversion utilities The choice of type makes sure that a `Node` has the exact wanted size. We'll use a different type for prefixes. Added dependency: hexadecimal conversion relies on the `hex` crate. The fact that sooner or later Mercurial is going to need to change its hash sizes has been taken strongly in consideration: - the hash length is a constant, but that is not directly exposed to callers. Changing the value of that constant is the only thing to do to change the hash length (even in unit tests) - the code could be adapted to support several sizes of hashes, if that turned out to be useful. To that effect, only the size of a given `Node` is exposed in the public API. - callers not involved in initial computation, I/O and FFI are able to operate without a priori assumptions on the hash size. The traits `FromHex` and `ToHex` have not been directly implemented, so that the doc-comments explaining these restrictions would stay really visible in `cargo doc` Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D7788
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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.