A partial bundle is created to temporarily save revisions > rev but
not descending from the node to strip, to be able to restore the
changesets after stripping the changelog.
Since this bundle is not kept after the strip operation, and is not
user-visible, it is not necessary and should be faster to avoid
compression.
All callers to localrepo.transaction() must supply a transaction description.
The description and the existing repository tip are then stored
(transactionally) into .hg/undo.desc; where rollback can later find it.
When performing a strip operation on a repository, it is vital that all the
truncations are performed, or that none of them are. This is done by adding
support for writing a number of entries in a single operation.
Co-contributor: Sune Foldager <cryo@cyanite.org>
Uses a transaction instance from the local repository to journal the
truncation of revlog files, such that if a strip only partially completes,
hg recover will be able to finish the truncate of all the files.
The potential unbundling of changes that have been backed up to be restored
later will, in case of an error, have to be unbundled manually. The
difference is that it will be possible to recover the repository state so
the unbundle can actually succeed.
When we remove revision N from the repository, all revisions >= N are
affected: either it's a descendant from N and will also be removed, or
it's not a descendant of N and will be renumbered.
As a consequence, we have to (at least temporarily) remove all filelog
and manifest revisions that have a linkrev >= N, readding some of them
later.
Unfortunately, it's possible to have a revlog with two revisions
r1 and r2 such that r1 < r2, but linkrev(r1) > linkrev(r2). If we try
to strip revision linkrev(r1) from the repository, we'll also lose
revision r2 when we truncate this revlog.
We already use changegroupsubset to create a temporary changegroup
containing the revisions that have to be restored, but that function is
unable to detect that we also wanted to save the r2 in the case above.
So we manually calculate these extra nodes and pass it to changegroupsubset.
This should fix issue764.
