storageutil: move metadata parsing and packing from revlog (API)
Parsing and writing of revision text metadata is likely identical
across storage backends. Let's move the code out of revlog so we
don't need to import the revlog module in order to use it.
Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D4754
from __future__ import absolute_import, print_function
import sys
globalvars = {}
lines = sys.stdin.readlines()
while lines:
l = lines.pop(0)
if l.startswith('SALT'):
print(l[:-1])
elif l.startswith('>>> '):
snippet = l[4:]
while lines and lines[0].startswith('... '):
l = lines.pop(0)
snippet += l[4:]
c = compile(snippet, '<heredoc>', 'single')
try:
exec(c, globalvars)
except Exception as inst:
print(repr(inst))