convert/gnuarch: parse continuation-of revisions in gnuarch source
In GNU Arch, continuation-of was often used for:
- tagging revisions
- continue working on a project in a new archive, because arch
was scaling poorly in revision numbers (cat-logs were slow
to be parsed and scanned through)
- very similar to the previous point, fork his own branch of
a project.
Parsing this header information will allow to 'follow' new history
because it often hints at older/forked/personal revision trees.
This patch however just implements the parsing of the
continuation-of header. A followup patch will implement the proper
use of this new information.
#!/bin/sh
hg init repo
cd repo
echo foo > foo
hg ci -qAm 'add foo' -d '0 0'
echo >> foo
hg ci -m 'change foo' -d '0 0'
hg up -qC 0
echo bar > bar
hg ci -qAm 'add bar' -d '0 0'
hg log
cd ..
hg init copy
cd copy
echo '% pull a missing revision'
hg pull -qr missing ../repo
echo '% pull -r 0'
hg pull -qr 0 ../repo
hg log
echo '% pull -r 1'
hg pull -qr 1 ../repo
hg log
# this used to abort: received changelog group is empty
echo '% pull -r 1 again'
hg pull -qr 1 ../repo