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copies: add a HASCOPIESINFO flag to highlight rev with useful data
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Authored by marmoute on Oct 1 2020, 10:09 AM.

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Summary

If some files changes that may impact copy tracing are detected, we set this
flag. This helps the copy tracing algorithm to skip fetching possibly expensive
data when unnecessary.

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marmoute created this revision.Oct 1 2020, 10:09 AM
Alphare accepted this revision.Oct 2 2020, 9:11 AM
This revision was not accepted when it landed; it landed in state Needs Review.
This revision was automatically updated to reflect the committed changes.

@marmoute: both REVISION_FLAG_SIDEDATA and REVISION_FLAG_HASCOPIESINFO need documented in mercurial/helptext/internals/revlogs.txt. Could you please send a patch to ensure the technical specs stay in sync with reality?