Windows people: please help check idea for a new Mercurial repository layout

[Paul Moore]

2008/6/14 Adrian Buehlmann <adrian at cadifra.com>:
> So, a simple file/directory encoding strategy (for a new Mercurial repo
> layout) would be to prepend a period to every directory- and filename
> inside the .hg dir.
>
> If anyone knows this encoding doesn't work, please tell me!

I see no reason why this would not work. However, it may be a bit more
wide-ranging than is needed.

> Of course this would be a new, incompatible repository layout, so old
> Mercurial versions would not be able to read such new repositories
> (see http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/CompatibilityRules).

Would it be better to *only* encode repository entries which are
currently invalid? Say, by tilde-escaping the first letter of the
special filename (so aux would become ~61ux). Unfortunately,
util._buildencodefun uses a hard-coded list of translations, so it's
still backward-incompatible, but at least the majority of repos remain
compatible.

Actually, if _buildencodefn added all the possible ~xx codes to the
dmap array, rather than just the ones needed for the special names, it
would give some extra scope for future encodings without breaking
compatibility each time.

Paul.