convert: allow the converter_source to say "skip this revision" If getchanges returns a string, it's assumed to be the id of an already converted revision. We map the current revision to the same revision this converted revision was mapped to. To allow skipping a root revision, getchanges can return the special string 'hg-convert-skipped-revision' (a.k.a. common.SKIPREV), which hopefully won't clash with any real id. The converter_source is responsible for rewriting the parents of the commit objects to make sure the revision graph makes sense.

#!/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/store/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