Today a patch I sent to mercurial-devel was allowlisted. It is reproduced here for reference.
rebase: add boolean config item rebase.norebasesource
This allows to use rebase without recording a rebase_source extra field. This is useful for example to build a mirror converted from another SCM (such as svn) by converting only new revisions, and then incrementally add them to the destination by pulling from the newly converted (unrelated) repo and rebasing the new revisions onto the last old already stored changeset. Without this patch the rebased changesets would always receive some rebase_source that would depend on the particular history of the conversion process, instead of only depending on the original source revisions.
After some discussion on lDebugX running a DPMI client in dosemu2 on a hosteurope virtual server, several changes were made to both lDebugX and dosemu2. dosemu2 got a genuine bugfix out of this. Or two. Or three.
One week ago I finally had to confront
a long-standing defect in lDebug's
expression evaluator: It didn't support
types. I found out because all numbers
that were "negative" in two's complement
(ie values that are >= 8000_0000h
unsigned)
were accepted for narrower callers,
that is, getword
or getbyte
.
These functions are called for things
such as offsets, E/S/F command strings,
and permanent breakpoint counters.
Some 13 years after the first "push bx" blog here is a new iteration on the same theme. This blog is for random tech related topics. Like my work so far this will probably mostly be about 8086 assembly and 86 DOS programming.