Restoring files from a corrupt bundle
Matt Mackall
mpm at selenic.com
Mon Nov 29 21:28:45 UTC 2010
On Mon, 2010-11-29 at 21:33 +0100, Erik Muttersbach wrote:
> The size of the uncompressed file is actually only about 750mb, so I
> think my large files may not be included there, However, I can see in
> the very beginning of the uncompressed bundle file a line that
> contains the path to one of these big files.
>
>
> Is there a manual way to decode the binary chunks?
Each chunk is of the form:
4 bytes: start
4 bytes: end
4 bytes: length
length bytes: data
..and instructs Mercurial to replace the bytes from start to end of the
previous version with the bytes from data.
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