merge: remove direct rustmod reference
We shouldn't rely on this member being present in `dirstate.py`, this creates
unnecessary coupling.
This also can trigger certain issues in edge-cases where the policy is changed
at runtime or multiple Python environments fight, which is an added bonus.
Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D12217
Create a repo, set the username to something more than 255 bytes, then run hg amend on it.
$ unset HGUSER
$ cat >> $HGRCPATH << EOF
> [ui]
> username = aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa <very.long.name@example.com>
> [extensions]
> amend =
> [experimental]
> evolution.createmarkers=True
> evolution.exchange=True
> EOF
$ hg init tmpa
$ cd tmpa
$ echo a > a
$ hg add
adding a
$ hg commit -m "Initial commit"
$ echo a >> a
$ hg amend 2>&1 | egrep -v '^(\*\*| )'
transaction abort!
rollback completed
Traceback (most recent call last):
*ProgrammingError: obsstore metadata value cannot be longer than 255 bytes (value "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa <very.long.name@example.com>" for key "user" is 285 bytes) (glob)