$ hg init empty-repo $ cd empty-repo Flags on revlog version 0 are rejected >>> with open('.hg/store/00changelog.i', 'wb') as fh: ... fh.write(b'\x00\x01\x00\x00') and None $ hg log abort: unknown flags (0x01) in version 0 revlog 00changelog.i [50] Unknown flags on revlog version 1 are rejected >>> with open('.hg/store/00changelog.i', 'wb') as fh: ... fh.write(b'\x00\x04\x00\x01') and None $ hg log abort: unknown flags (0x04) in version 1 revlog 00changelog.i [50] Unknown version is rejected >>> with open('.hg/store/00changelog.i', 'wb') as fh: ... fh.write(b'\x00\x00\x00\x02') and None $ hg log abort: unknown version (2) in revlog 00changelog.i [50] $ cd .. Test for CVE-2016-3630 $ hg init >>> import codecs >>> open("a.i", "wb").write(codecs.decode(codecs.decode( ... b"""eJxjYGZgZIAAYQYGxhgom+k/FMx8YKx9ZUaKSOyqo4cnuKb8mbqHV5cBCVTMWb1Cwqkhe4Gsg9AD ... Joa3dYtcYYYBAQ8Qr4OqZAYRICPTSr5WKd/42rV36d+8/VmrNpv7NP1jQAXrQE4BqQUARngwVA==""", ... "base64"), "zlib")) and None $ hg debugrevlogindex a.i rev linkrev nodeid p1 p2 0 2 99e0332bd498 000000000000 000000000000 1 3 6674f57a23d8 99e0332bd498 000000000000 >>> from mercurial import revlog, vfs >>> tvfs = vfs.vfs(b'.') >>> tvfs.options = {b'revlogv1': True} >>> rl = revlog.revlog(tvfs, b'a.i') >>> rl.revision(1) mpatchError(*'patch cannot be decoded'*) (glob)