mercurial/help/extensions.txt
author Gregory Szorc <gregory.szorc@gmail.com>
Sun, 20 Nov 2016 16:56:21 -0800
changeset 30461 d195fa651b51
parent 19296 da16d21cf4ed
permissions -rw-r--r--
bdiff: don't check border condition in loop This is pretty much a copy of d500ddae7494, just to a different loop. The condition `p == plast` (`plast == a + len - 1`) was only true on the final iteration of the loop. So it was wasteful to check for it on every iteration. We decrease the iteration count by 1 and add an explicit check for `p == plast` after the loop. Again, we see modest wins. From the mozilla-unified repository: $ perfbdiff -m 3041e4d59df2 ! wall 0.035502 comb 0.040000 user 0.040000 sys 0.000000 (best of 100) ! wall 0.030480 comb 0.030000 user 0.030000 sys 0.000000 (best of 100) $ perfbdiff 0e9928989e9c --alldata --count 100 ! wall 4.097394 comb 4.100000 user 4.100000 sys 0.000000 (best of 3) ! wall 3.597798 comb 3.600000 user 3.600000 sys 0.000000 (best of 3) The 2nd example throws a total of ~3.3GB of data at bdiff. This change increases the throughput from ~811 MB/s to ~924 MB/s.

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 = !