Argh!!!

[Brendan Cully]

On Wednesday, 14 March 2007 at 16:22, Matt Mackall wrote:
> The size of each index entry is 64 bytes:
> 
> $ python
> Python 2.4.4 (#2, Jan 13 2007, 17:50:26)
> [GCC 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>> 254976/64.0
> 3984.0
> 
> To truncate it back to manifest revision 3980, do something like:
> >>> 3980 * 64
> 254720
> 
> $ cp manifest.i manifest.i.orig
> $ dd if=manifest.i.orig of=manifest.i bs=1 count=254720
> 
> Then it should be readable.

Smaller revlogs use inline data (no corresponding .d file), and won't
have predictable boundaries. I can't think of anything to do but to
make hg gracefully ignore data after short reads or parse errors.