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wireproto: use new peer interface The wirepeer class provides concrete implementations of peer interface methods for calling wire protocol commands. It makes sense for this class to inherit from the peer abstract base class. So we change that. Since httppeer and sshpeer have already been converted to the new interface, peerrepository is no longer adding any value. So it has been removed. httppeer and sshpeer have been updated to reflect the loss of peerrepository and the inheritance of the abstract base class in wirepeer. The code changes in wirepeer are reordering of methods to group by interface. Some Python code in tests was updated to reflect changed APIs. .. api:: peer.peerrepository has been removed. Use repository.peer abstract base class to represent a peer repository. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D338
author Gregory Szorc <gregory.szorc@gmail.com>
date Thu, 10 Aug 2017 20:58:28 -0700
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Mercurial has the ability to add new features through the use of
extensions. Extensions may add new commands, add options to
existing commands, change the default behavior of commands, or
implement hooks.

To enable the "foo" extension, either shipped with Mercurial or in the
Python search path, create an entry for it in your configuration file,
like this::

  [extensions]
  foo =

You may also specify the full path to an extension::

  [extensions]
  myfeature = ~/.hgext/myfeature.py

See :hg:`help config` for more information on configuration files.

Extensions are not loaded by default for a variety of reasons:
they can increase startup overhead; they may be meant for advanced
usage only; they may provide potentially dangerous abilities (such
as letting you destroy or modify history); they might not be ready
for prime time; or they may alter some usual behaviors of stock
Mercurial. It is thus up to the user to activate extensions as
needed.

To explicitly disable an extension enabled in a configuration file of
broader scope, prepend its path with !::

  [extensions]
  # disabling extension bar residing in /path/to/extension/bar.py
  bar = !/path/to/extension/bar.py
  # ditto, but no path was supplied for extension baz
  baz = !