This drops the options to run arbitrary shell commands within
commits and the option to create a file that gets appended to
in every revision. It now supports to not write file data at
all, which is very fast for generating a pure 00changelog.i
(useful for discovery tests, for instance).
Timings for 1000 linear nodes:
* Old `hg debugbuilddag -o '+1000'` took 4.5 secs.
* New `hg debugbuilddag -o '+1000'` takes 2 secs.
* New `hg debugbuilddag '+1000'` takes 0.8 secs.
(The last one creates only 00changelog.i).
Send the command arguments in the HTTP headers. The command is still part
of the URL. If the server does not have the 'httpheader' capability, the
client will send the command arguments in the URL as it did previously.
Web servers typically allow more data to be placed within the headers than
in the URL, so this approach will:
- Avoid HTTP errors due to using a URL that is too large.
- Allow Mercurial to implement a more efficient wire protocol.
An alternate approach is to send the arguments as part of the request body.
This approach has been rejected because it requires the use of POST
requests, so it would break any existing configuration that relies on the
request type for authentication or caching.
Extensibility:
- The header size is provided by the server, which makes it possible to
introduce an hgrc setting for it.
- The client ignores the capability value after the first comma, which
allows more information to be included in the future.
getbundle(common, heads) -> bundle
Returns the changegroup for all ancestors of heads which are not ancestors of common. For both
sets, the heads are included in the set.
Intended to eventually supercede changegroupsubset and changegroup. Uses heads of common region
to exclude unwanted changesets instead of bases of desired region, which is more useful and
easier to implement.
Designed to be extensible with new optional arguments (which will have to be guarded by
corresponding capabilities).
