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help: align description of 'base rev' with reality [issue5488]
authorKim Alvefur <zash@zash.se>
Tue, 28 Feb 2017 15:19:08 +0100
changeset 31214 167b69ccc62c
parent 31213 9f169b7f53d5
child 31215 15c998528c36
help: align description of 'base rev' with reality [issue5488] The text about revlogs seems to be wrong about -1 being used to indicate the start of a delta chain. Attempt to correct this.
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--- a/mercurial/help/internals/revlogs.txt	Wed Mar 01 18:37:34 2017 -0800
+++ b/mercurial/help/internals/revlogs.txt	Tue Feb 28 15:19:08 2017 +0100
@@ -108,9 +108,9 @@
 
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    Base or previous revision this revision's delta was produced against.
-   -1 means this revision holds full text (as opposed to a delta).
-   For generaldelta repos, this is the previous revision in the delta
-   chain. For non-generaldelta repos, this is the base or first
+   This revision holds full text (as opposed to a delta) if it points to
+   itself. For generaldelta repos, this is the previous revision in the
+   delta chain. For non-generaldelta repos, this is the base or first
    revision in the delta chain.
 
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