On Sat, Dec 24, 2016 at 07:30:57PM +0100, Pierre-Yves David wrote:
>
>
> On 12/24/2016 05:36 PM, Remi Chaintron wrote:
> > # HG changeset patch
> > # User Remi Chaintron <r...@fb.com>
> > # Date 1482451718 18000
> > #      Thu Dec 22 19:08:38 2016 -0500
> > # Node ID c1bd9b7750cdfe1f2a1437e4ba0ed8f6e48b2dd1
> > # Parent  4f72f28e527c72cae072880b8fa1610c0289dded
> > documentation: better censor flag documentation.
> >
> > diff --git a/mercurial/help/internals/revlogs.txt 
> > b/mercurial/help/internals/revlogs.txt
> > --- a/mercurial/help/internals/revlogs.txt
> > +++ b/mercurial/help/internals/revlogs.txt
> > @@ -89,7 +89,7 @@
> >     Absolute offset of revision data from beginning of revlog.
> >  6-7 (2 bytes)
> >     Bit flags impacting revision behavior. The following bit offsets define:
> > -   0: 'censor' extension flag.
> > +   0: REVIDX_ISCENSORED indicates the revision has censored metadata.
>
> From my understanding of censor, I would have expected something more like
> "the revision content is censored". If I remember correctly, the censors
> flag means the revision content has been nuked, the metadata are more a
> secondary things that give a bit more details about that nuking.
>
> What do you think ?

My recollection matches, for anyone following along. The metadata is a
hack that predates changegroup3 being able to exchange revlog flags,
so the in-content revlog flagging is a hack so that censored nodes can
be exchanged.

>
> >  8-11 (4 bytes)
> >     Compressed length of revision data / chunk as stored in revlog.
> >  12-15 (4 bytes)
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