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clone: only use stream when we understand the revlog format...
clone: only use stream when we understand the revlog format This patch fixes issues with stream cloning in the presense of parentdelta, lwcopy and similar additions that change the interpretation of the revlog format, or the format itself. Currently, the stream capability is sent like this: stream=<version of changelog> But the client doesn't actually check the version number; also, it only checks the changelog and it doesn't capture the interpretation-changes and flag-changes in parentdelta and lwcopy. This patch removes the 'stream' capability whenever we use a non-basic revlog format, to prevent old clients from receiving incorrect data. In those cases, a new capability called 'streamreqs' is added instead. Instead of a revlog version, it comes with a list of revlog-format relevant requirements, which are a subset of the repository requirements, excluding things that are not relevant for stream. New clients use this to determine whether or not they can stream. Old clients only look for the 'stream' capability, as always. New servers will still send this when serving old repositories.
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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.