$ 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') $ hg log abort: unknown flags (0x01) in version 0 revlog 00changelog.i! [255] Unknown flags on revlog version 1 are rejected >>> with open('.hg/store/00changelog.i', 'wb') as fh: ... fh.write(b'\x00\x04\x00\x01') $ hg log abort: unknown flags (0x04) in version 1 revlog 00changelog.i! [255] Unknown version is rejected >>> with open('.hg/store/00changelog.i', 'wb') as fh: ... fh.write(b'\x00\x00\x00\x02') $ hg log abort: unknown version (2) in revlog 00changelog.i! [255] $ cd .. Test for CVE-2016-3630 $ hg init >>> open("a.i", "wb").write( ... b"""eJxjYGZgZIAAYQYGxhgom+k/FMx8YKx9ZUaKSOyqo4cnuKb8mbqHV5cBCVTMWb1Cwqkhe4Gsg9AD ... Joa3dYtcYYYBAQ8Qr4OqZAYRICPTSr5WKd/42rV36d+8/VmrNpv7NP1jQAXrQE4BqQUARngwVA==""" ... .decode("base64").decode("zlib")) $ hg debugindex a.i rev linkrev nodeid p1 p2 0 2 99e0332bd498 000000000000 000000000000 1 3 6674f57a23d8 99e0332bd498 000000000000 $ hg debugdata a.i 1 2>&1 | egrep 'Error:.*decoded' (mercurial\.\w+\.mpatch\.)?mpatchError: patch cannot be decoded (re)