Add MOTD display to hgweb and hgwebdir. The hgweb "footer" template now has space for an optional message of the day (MOTD). This is used in two contexts: 1) On the hgwebdir index page 2) On various pages of each individual repo For both cases, the MOTD is read out of an entry named "motd" in the [web] section of a config file -- the only difference is which file is used. For #1, you need to add the section to hgweb.config; for #2, you need to add to the repo's .hgrc file. I suggest something like this: [web] motd = <p>To download these repositories, <a href="http://www.selenic.com/mercurial">get Mercurial</a> and then type something like:</p><p><pre>hg clone http://gs3080.sp.cs.cmu.edu/hg.cgi/cpmpy</pre></p>You can also click the Download links to get an archive of the latest revision. An online sample is available here: http://gs3080.sp.cs.cmu.edu/hg.cgi

#!/bin/sh

hg init

cat > .hg/hgrc <<EOF
[encode]
*.gz = gunzip

[decode]
*.gz = gzip

EOF

echo "this is a test" | gzip > a.gz
hg add a.gz
hg ci -m "test" -d "1000000 0"
echo %% no changes
hg status
touch a.gz

echo %% no changes
hg status

echo %% uncompressed contents in repo
hg debugdata .hg/data/a.gz.d 0

echo %% uncompress our working dir copy
gunzip < a.gz

rm a.gz
hg co

echo %% uncompress our new working dir copy
gunzip < a.gz