[PATCH] validate: check for spurious incoming filelog entries

[Kevin Bullock]

On 11 Dec 2012, at 1:15 PM, Sune Foldager wrote:

> # HG changeset patch
> # User Sune Foldager <cryo at cyanite.org>
> # Date 1355253201 -3600
> # Node ID 25a36cb85e7acda9901505832a186dfb883c451f
> # Parent  5522a7951bd7e2b16831ba1736feb2e9145d7e58
> validate: check for spurious incoming filelog entries
> 
> Accepting those will lead to "mild corruption", correctly reported as
> an error by hg verify, but often not a problem in practice.
> 
> Enabled when server.validate is switched on.

Do you have a case where it _is_ a problem in practice?

I'm generally +1 but want to be clearer on the possible impact. It won't really affect anyone who's running `hg verify` on their repos regularly, but that's likely to be the minority of our users.

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