'export' is the official export format and used by patchbomb, but it would only
show date as a timestamp that most humans might find it hard to relate to. It
would be very convenient when reviewing a patch to be able to see what
timestamp the patch will end up with.
Mercurial has always used util.parsedate for parsing these headers. It can
handle 'all' date formats, so we could just as well use a readable one.
'export' will now use the format used by 'log' - which is the format described
as 'Unix date format' in the templating help. We assume that all parsers of '#
HG changeset patch'es can handle that.
Have histedit record the hex of the original changeset as already done by:
- graft
- commit --amend
- rebase
My main motivation for adding this is to prevent the creation of obsolescence cycle
(see issue3681).
Note that commit created during edit are not affected yet.
The old and fragile patching logic is replaced by smart merges (as rebase and
graft do). This should prevents some conflicts and smoother human resolution.
For this purpose the "foldchanges" function is renamed to "applychanges" and
handle a single revision only.
Update the folding code to works in memory instead of applying patches on the
working directory. This is cleaner, faster and prepare the removal of the whole
patching logic.
This new collapse function will probably move into core sooner or later. A lot
of other rewriting operation may benefit from it.
When running the following actions:
pick 617f94f13c0f 1 +4
drop 888f9082bf99 2 +5
fold 251d831eeec5 3 +6
if the fold fails, is fixed by the user with a new changeset, --continue
will ignore the new revision when generating the fold changelog. This
was caused by --continue detecting new changesets as descendants of the
parent not descendants of changesets in the initial list. In this case,
dropped changesets must be ignored.
Even with the computation fixed, the 'newchildren' list was always
emptied by the filtering loop and passed empty to finishfold().
Note that changesets dropped and recreated identically will still be
missed. This probably cannot be solved but is unlikely to happen.
Other things, like 'newchildren' having multiple heads, should be
checked as well.