[Bug 5488] New: mercurial/help/internals/revlogs.txt seems to be wrong about chain base

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https://bz.mercurial-scm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5488

            Bug ID: 5488
           Summary: mercurial/help/internals/revlogs.txt seems to be wrong
                    about chain base
           Product: Mercurial
           Version: unspecified
          Hardware: All
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: bug
          Priority: wish
         Component: Mercurial
          Assignee: bugzilla at mercurial-scm.org
          Reporter: zash at zash.se
                CC: mercurial-devel at selenic.com

Created attachment 1949
  --> https://bz.mercurial-scm.org/attachment.cgi?id=1949&action=edit
Patch, attempt to improve the text

mercurial/help/internals/revlogs.txt states that for the chain base field, "-1
means this revision holds full text", but the code in revlog.chainbase() and
revlog._deltachain() seems to stop when this field is equal to its own revision
id.

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