A new repository uses zlib storage, which doesn't need a requirement $ hg init default $ cd default $ cat .hg/requires dotencode fncache generaldelta revlogv1 sparserevlog store testonly-simplestore (reposimplestore !) $ touch foo $ hg -q commit -A -m 'initial commit with a lot of repeated repeated repeated text to trigger compression' $ hg debugrevlog -c | grep 0x78 0x78 (x) : 1 (100.00%) 0x78 (x) : 110 (100.00%) $ cd .. Unknown compression engine to format.compression aborts $ hg --config format.revlog-compression=unknown init unknown abort: compression engine unknown defined by format.revlog-compression not available (run "hg debuginstall" to list available compression engines) [255] A requirement specifying an unknown compression engine results in bail $ hg init unknownrequirement $ cd unknownrequirement $ echo exp-compression-unknown >> .hg/requires $ hg log abort: repository requires features unknown to this Mercurial: exp-compression-unknown! (see https://mercurial-scm.org/wiki/MissingRequirement for more information) [255] $ cd .. #if zstd $ hg --config format.revlog-compression=zstd init zstd $ cd zstd $ cat .hg/requires dotencode fncache generaldelta revlog-compression-zstd revlogv1 sparserevlog store testonly-simplestore (reposimplestore !) $ touch foo $ hg -q commit -A -m 'initial commit with a lot of repeated repeated repeated text' $ hg debugrevlog -c | grep 0x28 0x28 : 1 (100.00%) 0x28 : 98 (100.00%) $ cd .. Specifying a new format.compression on an existing repo won't introduce data with that engine or a requirement $ cd default $ touch bar $ hg --config format.revlog-compression=zstd -q commit -A -m 'add bar with a lot of repeated repeated repeated text' $ cat .hg/requires dotencode fncache generaldelta revlogv1 sparserevlog store testonly-simplestore (reposimplestore !) $ hg debugrevlog -c | grep 0x78 0x78 (x) : 2 (100.00%) 0x78 (x) : 199 (100.00%) #endif checking zlib options ===================== $ hg init zlib-level-default $ hg init zlib-level-1 $ cat << EOF >> zlib-level-1/.hg/hgrc > [storage] > revlog.zlib.level=1 > EOF $ hg init zlib-level-9 $ cat << EOF >> zlib-level-9/.hg/hgrc > [storage] > revlog.zlib.level=9 > EOF $ commitone() { > repo=$1 > cp $RUNTESTDIR/bundles/issue4438-r1.hg $repo/a > hg -R $repo add $repo/a > hg -R $repo commit -m some-commit > } $ for repo in zlib-level-default zlib-level-1 zlib-level-9; do > commitone $repo > done $ $RUNTESTDIR/f -s */.hg/store/data/* zlib-level-1/.hg/store/data/a.i: size=4146 zlib-level-9/.hg/store/data/a.i: size=4138 zlib-level-default/.hg/store/data/a.i: size=4138 Test error cases $ hg init zlib-level-invalid $ cat << EOF >> zlib-level-invalid/.hg/hgrc > [storage] > revlog.zlib.level=foobar > EOF $ commitone zlib-level-invalid abort: storage.revlog.zlib.level is not a valid integer ('foobar') abort: storage.revlog.zlib.level is not a valid integer ('foobar') [255] $ hg init zlib-level-out-of-range $ cat << EOF >> zlib-level-out-of-range/.hg/hgrc > [storage] > revlog.zlib.level=42 > EOF $ commitone zlib-level-out-of-range abort: invalid value for `storage.revlog.zlib.level` config: 42 abort: invalid value for `storage.revlog.zlib.level` config: 42 [255] checking zstd options ===================== $ hg init zstd-level-default --config format.revlog-compression=zstd $ hg init zstd-level-1 --config format.revlog-compression=zstd $ cat << EOF >> zstd-level-1/.hg/hgrc > [storage] > revlog.zstd.level=1 > EOF $ hg init zstd-level-22 --config format.revlog-compression=zstd $ cat << EOF >> zstd-level-22/.hg/hgrc > [storage] > revlog.zstd.level=22 > EOF $ commitone() { > repo=$1 > cp $RUNTESTDIR/bundles/issue4438-r1.hg $repo/a > hg -R $repo add $repo/a > hg -R $repo commit -m some-commit > } $ for repo in zstd-level-default zstd-level-1 zstd-level-22; do > commitone $repo > done $ $RUNTESTDIR/f -s zstd-*/.hg/store/data/* zstd-level-1/.hg/store/data/a.i: size=4097 zstd-level-22/.hg/store/data/a.i: size=4091 zstd-level-default/.hg/store/data/a.i: size=4094 Test error cases $ hg init zstd-level-invalid --config format.revlog-compression=zstd $ cat << EOF >> zstd-level-invalid/.hg/hgrc > [storage] > revlog.zstd.level=foobar > EOF $ commitone zstd-level-invalid abort: storage.revlog.zstd.level is not a valid integer ('foobar') abort: storage.revlog.zstd.level is not a valid integer ('foobar') [255] $ hg init zstd-level-out-of-range --config format.revlog-compression=zstd $ cat << EOF >> zstd-level-out-of-range/.hg/hgrc > [storage] > revlog.zstd.level=42 > EOF $ commitone zstd-level-out-of-range abort: invalid value for `storage.revlog.zstd.level` config: 42 abort: invalid value for `storage.revlog.zstd.level` config: 42 [255]