Currently, Mercurial has a number of commands to show information. And,
there are features coming down the pipe that will introduce more
commands for showing information.
Currently, when introducing a new class of data or a view that we
wish to expose to the user, the strategy is to introduce a new command
or overload an existing command, sometimes both. For example, there is
a desire to formalize the wip/smartlog/underway/mine functionality that
many have devised. There is also a desire to introduce a "topics"
concept. Others would like views of "the current stack." In the
current model, we'd need a new command for wip/smartlog/etc (that
behaves a lot like a pre-defined alias of `hg log`). For topics,
we'd likely overload `hg topic[s]` to both display and manipulate
topics.
Adding new commands for every pre-defined query doesn't scale well
and pollutes `hg help`. Overloading commands to perform read-only and
write operations is arguably an UX anti-pattern: while having all
functionality for a given concept in one command is nice, having a
single command doing multiple discrete operations is not. Furthermore,
a user may be surprised that a command they thought was read-only
actually changes something.
We discussed this at the Mercurial 4.0 Sprint in Paris and decided that
having a single command where we could hang pre-defined views of
various data would be a good idea. Having such a command would:
* Help prevent an explosion of new query-related commands
* Create a clear separation between read and write operations
(mitigates footguns)
* Avoids overloading the meaning of commands that manipulate data
(bookmark, tag, branch, etc) (while we can't take away the
existing behavior for BC reasons, we now won't introduce this
behavior on new commands)
* Allows users to discover informational views more easily by
aggregating them in a single location
* Lowers the barrier to creating the new views (since the barrier
to creating a top-level command is relatively high)
So, this commit introduces the `hg show` command via the "show"
extension. This command accepts a positional argument of the
"view" to show. New views can be registered with a decorator. To
prove it works, we implement the "bookmarks" view, which shows a
table of bookmarks and their associated nodes.
We introduce a new style to hold everything used by `hg show`.
For our initial bookmarks view, the output varies from `hg bookmarks`:
* Padding is performed in the template itself as opposed to Python
* Revision integers are not shown
* shortest() is used to display a 5 character node by default (as
opposed to static 12 characters)
I chose to implement the "bookmarks" view first because it is simple
and shouldn't invite too much bikeshedding that detracts from the
evaluation of `hg show` itself. But there is an important point
to consider: we now have 2 ways to show a list of bookmarks. I'm not
a fan of introducing multiple ways to do very similar things. So it
might be worth discussing how we wish to tackle this issue for
bookmarks, tags, branches, MQ series, etc.
I also made the choice of explicitly declaring the default show
template not part of the standard BC guarantees. History has shown
that we make mistakes and poor choices with output formatting but
can't fix these mistakes later because random tools are parsing
output and we don't want to break these tools. Optimizing for human
consumption is one of my goals for `hg show`. So, by not covering
the formatting as part of BC, the barrier to future change is much
lower and humans benefit.
There are some improvements that can be made to formatting. For
example, we don't yet use label() in the templates. We obviously
want this for color. But I'm not sure if we should reuse the existing
log.* labels or invent new ones. I figure we can punt that to a
follow-up.
At the aforementioned Sprint, we discussed and discarded various
alternatives to `hg show`.
We considered making `hg log <view>` perform this behavior. The main
reason we can't do this is because a positional argument to `hg log`
can be a file path and if there is a conflict between a path name and
a view name, behavior is ambiguous. We could have introduced
`hg log --view` or similar, but we felt that required too much typing
(we don't want to require a command flag to show a view) and wasn't
very discoverable. Furthermore, `hg log` is optimized for showing
changelog data and there are things that `hg display` could display
that aren't changelog centric.
There were concerns about using "show" as the command name.
Some users already have a "show" alias that is similar to `hg export`.
There were also concerns that Git users adapted to `git show` would
be confused by `hg show`'s different behavior. The main difference
here is `git show` prints an `hg export` like view of the current
commit by default and `hg show` requires an argument. `git show`
can also display any Git object. `git show` does not support
displaying more complex views: just single objects. If we
implemented `hg show <hash>` or `hg show <identifier>`, `hg show`
would be a superset of `git show`. Although, I'm hesitant to do that
at this time because I view `hg show` as a higher-level querying
command and there are namespace collisions between valid identifiers
and registered views.
There is also a prefix collision with `hg showconfig`, which is an
alias of `hg config`.
We also considered `hg view`, but that is already used by the "hgk"
extension.
`hg display` was also proposed at one point. It has a prefix collision
with `hg diff`. General consensus was "show" or "view" are the best
verbs. And since "view" was taken, "show" was chosen.
There are a number of inline TODOs in this patch. Some of these
represent decisions yet to be made. Others represent features
requiring non-trivial complexity. Rather than bloat the patch or
invite additional bikeshedding, I figured I'd document future
enhancements via TODO so we can get a minimal implmentation landed.
Something is better than nothing.
According to the document added above, we should check L1 == L2, and the
only way to get L1 in all cases is to call "rawsize()", and the only way to
get L2 is to call "revision(raw=True)". Therefore the fix.
Meanwhile there are still a lot of things about flagprocessor broken in
revlog.py. Tests will be added after revlog.py gets fixed.
It seems a good idea to list all kinds of "surprises" and expected behavior
to make the upcoming changes easier to understand.
Note: the comment added does not reflect the actual behavior of the current
code.
In filerevision view (/file/<rev>/<fname>) we add some event listeners on
mouse clicks of <span> elements in the <pre class="sourcelines"> block.
Those listeners will capture a range of lines selected between two mouse
clicks and a box inviting to follow the history of selected lines will then
show up. Selected lines (i.e. the block of lines) get a CSS class which make
them highlighted. Selection can be cancelled (and restarted) by either
clicking on the cancel ("x") button in the invite box or clicking on any other
source line. Also clicking twice on the same line will abort the selection and
reset event listeners to restart the process.
As a first step, this action is only advertised by the "cursor: cell" CSS rule
on source lines elements as any other mechanisms would make the code
significantly more complicated. This might be improved later.
All JavaScript code lives in a new "linerangelog.js" file, sourced in
filerevision template (only in "paper" style for now).
If cache hit and flags are empty, no flag processor runs and "text" equals
to "rawtext". So we check flags, and return rawtext.
This resolves performance issue introduced by a previous patch.
All 3 users of _addrevision use raw:
- addrevision: passing rawtext to _addrevision
- addgroup: passing rawtext and raw=True to _addrevision
- clone: passing rawtext to _addrevision
There is no real user using _addrevision(raw=False). On the other hand,
_addrevision is low-level code dealing with raw revlog deltas and rawtexts.
It should not transform rawtext to non-raw text.
This patch removes the "raw" parameter from "_addrevision", and does some
rename and doc change to make it clear that "_addrevision" expects rawtext.
Archeology shows 886a08012bbe added "raw" flag to "_addrevision", follow-ups
fe1e206cb389 and 1cfa6239c923 seem to make the flag unnecessary.
test-revlog-raw.py no longer complains.
See the added comment. revdiff is meant to output the raw delta that will be
written to revlog. It should use raw.
test-revlog-raw.py now shows "addgroupcopy test passed", but there is more
to fix.
Using external content provided by flagprocessor when building revlog delta
is wrong, because deltas are applied to raw contents in revlog.
This patch fixes the above issue by adding "raw=True".
test-revlog-raw.py now shows "local test passed", but there is more to fix.
As documented at revlog.__init__, revlog._cache stores raw text.
The current read and write usage of "_cache" in revlog.revision lacks of
raw=True check.
This patch fixes that by adding check about raw, and storing rawtext
explicitly in _cache.
Note: it may slow down cache hit code path when raw=False and flags=0. That
performance issue will be fixed in a later patch.
test-revlog-raw now points us to a new problem.
The python hooks have access to the hook type information. There is not reason
for external hook to not be aware of it too.
For the record my use case is to make sure a hook script is configured for the
right type.
Same rational as for '_pythonhook', 'htype' is more accurate and less error
prone. We just fixed an error from the 'name'/'hname' confusion and this should
prevent them in the future.
We rename 'name' to 'htype' because it fits the variable content better.
Multiple python hooks already use 'htype' as a name for the argument. This makes
the difference with "hname" clearer and the code less error prone.
When disabling the '#requires serve' check in test-hgwebdir.t and running it on
Windows, several 500 errors popped up when querying '?style=json', with the
following in the error log:
File "...\\mercurial\\templater.py", line 393, in runfilter
"keyword '%s'") % (filt.func_name, dt))
Abort: template filter 'json' is not compatible with keyword 'lastchange'
The swallowed exception at that point was:
File "...\\mercurial\\templatefilters.py", line 242, in json
raise TypeError('cannot encode type %s' % obj.__class__.__name__)
TypeError: cannot encode type long
This corresponds to 'lastchange' being populated by hgweb.common.get_stat(),
which uses os.stat().st_mtime. os.stat_float_times() is being disabled in util,
so the type for the times is 'long' on Windows, and 'int' on Linux.
When "patch" query parameter is present in requests to filelog view, line ids
in patches diff are no longer unique in the page since several patches are
shown on the same page. We now prefix line id by changeset shortnode when
several patches are displayed in the same page to have unique line ids
overall.
I ran into this python issue with an incomplete certificate chain on Windows
recently, and this is the clarification that came from that experimenting. The
comment I left on the bug tracker [1] with a reference to the CPython code [2]
indicates that the original problem I had is a different bug, but happened to
be mentioned under issue20916 on the Python bug tracker.
[1] https://bz.mercurial-scm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5313#c7
[2] https://hg.python.org/cpython/file/v2.7.12/Modules/_ssl.c#l628
Previously, when copying a file, copyfiles will compare src's st_dev with
dirname(dst)'s st_dev, to decide whether to enable hardlink or not.
That could have issues on Linux's overlayfs, where stating directories could
result in different st_dev from st_dev of stating files, even if both the
directories and the files exist in the overlay's upperdir.
This patch fixes it by checking dirname(src) instead. It's more consistent
because we are checking directories for both src and dest.
That fixes test-hardlinks.t running on common Docker setups.
As Yuya pointed out during a review a month ago, _admonitions and
_admonitiontitles are largely redundant. With the last commit, they
are exactly redundant. So, remove _admonitions and use
_admonitiontitles.keys() instead.
The "admonition" rst primitive is split into "specific" admonitions
("attention," "caution," etc) and the "generic" admonition
("admonition"). For more, see
http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/ref/rst/directives.html#admonitions
The _admonitions set and keys of the _admonitiontitles dict
overlap exactly except _admonitions has an "admonition" entry.
Nowhere in Mercurial is the "admonition" admonition directive used.
Even if it were, it doesn't have a title, so it wouldn't be rendered
correctly.
So, let's remove "admonition" from the set of recognized admonition
directives.
This is minor update along the way. We simplify the 'findglobaltags' function to
only return the tags. Since no existing data is reused, we know that all tags
returned are global and we can let the caller get that information if it cares
about it.
We move all arguments related to tagtype to the end, together. This will allow
us to make these arguments optional and reuse of this logic for callers that do
not care about the tag types.
The previous clause for filter out a diff hunk was too restrictive. We need to
consider the following cases (assuming linerange=(lb, ub) and the @s2,l2
hunkrange):
<-(s2)--------(s2+l2)->
<-(lb)---(ub)->
<-(lb)---(ub)->
<-(lb)---(ub)->
previously on the first and last situations were considered.
In test-hgweb-filelog.t, add a couple of lines at the beginning of file "b" so
that the line range we will follow does not start at the beginning of file.
This covers the change in aforementioned diff hunk filter clause.
Until now there were no label to highlight obsolete changesets in log output,
only evolution troubles (unstable, bumped, divergent) are supported. We add a
"changeset.obsolete" label on changeset entries produced by changeset_printer
so that obsolete changesets can be highlighted in log output. This is useful
because, unless using a graph log where obsolete changesets have a 'x' marker,
there's no way to identify obsolete changesets. And even in graph mode, when
working directory's parent is obsolete, we get a '@' marker and we do not see
it as obsolete.
Previously, fileset functions operating on status items performed
membership tests against a list of items. When there are thousands
of items having a specific status, that test can be extremely
slow. Changing the membership test to a set makes this operation
substantially faster.
On the mozilla-central repo:
$ hg files -r d14cac631ecc 'set:added()'
before: 28.120s
after: 0.860s
$ hg status --change d14cac631ecc --added
0.690s
