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| Unknown commands elicit no response in early hg versions and zero length. Version detection: Because older Mercurial versions have no response to unknown commands, to detect a version you must send the {{{hello}}} command followed by a command with known output and then determine if the {{{hello}}} command responded before the known output was sent. |
===== Version detection ===== Because older Mercurial versions give no/zero-length responses to unknown commands, you must first send the ''`hello`'' command followed by a command with known output, and then determine if the ''`hello`'' command responded before the known output was sent. |
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This page is an incomplete stub. Please Command names are sent over the ssh pipe as plain text, followed by a newline. Arguments are sent as [argname] [value length]\n, followed by the value. Responses are [response length]\n, followed by the response.
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send: heads response: 41 482d3fb47d80693f929101f95944bf019009dd79
Version detection
Because older Mercurial versions give no/zero-length responses to unknown commands, you must first send the hello command followed by a command with known output, and then determine if the hello command responded before the known output was sent.