Selecting editing commits, rewording commit messages, and
selecting commits are key actions, we will prefer them more
generally in a future commit, this pulls them ahead before
that to make the diffs easier to read.
The remaining commands are left alphabetically sorted
The default behaviour to forbid this makes a lot of sense for novice users
because it's safeguarding them from dangerous behavior but making it
configurable will be apprieciated by power users in at least one big
organization.
It allows an user to look an histedit rules from declarative perspective and
make the rules reflect the state after histedit. If we can move lines t move
commits why can't we drop lines to drop commits?
Let's put this behind config knob and inform users about this feature the very
moment they are trying to use it so they can choose desired behaviour.
Previously, `hg histedit` required a revision argument specifying which
revision to use as the base for the current histedit operation. There
was an undocumented and experimental "histedit.defaultrev" option that
supported defining a single revision to be used if no argument is
passed.
Mercurial knows what changesets can be edited. And in most scenarios,
people want to edit this history of everything on the current head that
is rewritable. Making histedit do this by default and not require
an explicit argument or additional configuration is a major usability
win and will enable more people to use histedit.
This patch changes the behavior of the experimental and undocumented
"histedit.defaultrev" config option to select an appropriate base
revision by default. Comprehensive tests exercising the edge cases
in the new, somewhat complicated default revset have been added.
Surprisingly, no tests broke. I guess we were never testing the
behavior with no ANCESTOR argument (it used to fail with
"abort: histedit requires exactly one ancestor revision"). The new
behavior is much more user friendly.
The functionality for choosing the default base revision has been
moved to destutil.py, where it can easily be modified by extensions.
Before we can add a 'base' action to histedit need to change verification
so that action can specify which steps of verification should run for it.
Also it's everything we need for the exec and stop actions implementation.
I thought about baking verification into each histedit action (so each
of them is responsible for verifying its constraints) but it felt wrong
because:
- every action would need to know its context (eg. the list of all other
actions)
- a lot of duplicated work will be added - each action will iterate through
all others
- the steps of the verification would need to be extracted and named anyway
in order to be reused
The verifyrules function grows too big now. I plan to refator it in one of
the next series.
These are related to differences in how missing files and network connection
failures are displayed. I opted to combine the strings in one line instead of
using '#if windows' blocks around entire commands in order to avoid future
changes being accidentally missed in the Windows sections. Globbing away the
entire output seemed wrong, as it could mask other failures.
The raw messages involved are:
Linux Windows
"* not known" <-> "getaddrinfo failed"
"Connection refused" <-> "No connection could be made because the
target machine actively refused it"
"No such file or directory" <-> "The system cannot find the file specified"
Issue 4941 indicates that NetBSD has yet another string for "* not known".
Also, the histedit test shows that the missing file is printed first on Windows,
last on Linux. That is controlled in windows.py:posixfile if we care to change
it.
Back in June we made histedit use obsolete markers to cleanup when possible.
This was rolled back as part of bb3db0db4037 (which should have only rolled back
the --abort stuff, but rolled back everything). This caused a nasty bug when
used in conjuction with the inhibit+directaccess extensions where histedit would
leave old nodes around even after they had been squashed away.
The root of the problem is that we first clean up old nodes, and then we clean
up temp nodes. In the first pass, when we obsoleted old nodes, some would become
unobsolete because they had temp nodes on top of them, thus making them stick
around even after the histedit finished.
The fix is to A) move the temp node cleanup to be before the old node cleanup
(since they are topological on top of the old nodes), and B) use obsolete
markers instead of stripping.
When an user aborts a histedit, many things could go wrong. At a minimum, after
a histedit abort failure, their repository should be out of that state. We've
found situations where the user could not exit the histedit state without
manually deleting the histedit state file. This patch ensures that if any
exception happens during an abort, the histedit statefile will be deleted so
that users are out of the histedit state and can at least manually get the repo
back to a workable condition.
Previously we would not allow --continue if the current working copy parent was
not a descendant of the commit produced by the previous histedit step. There's
nothing really blocking us from continuing the histedit in this situation, so
let's stop aborting in this case.
This is technically a BC change, but it is making things more forgiving so I
think it's ok.
In the future we will likely add an 'exec' action to histedit, which means the
user can do whatever they want during the middle of a histedit (like perhaps
calling 'hg update'), which means we'll need to support this case eventually
anyway.
Adds a configuration setting for allowing users to specify the default behavior
of 'hg histedit' without arguments. This saves users from having to manually
figure out the bottom commit or a complicated revset. My current revset of
choice is "only(.) & draft() - ::merge()"
The commits that histedit can work with is usually quite limited, so if this
feature ends up working well, we may want to consider making "only(.) & draft()
- ::merge()" the default behavior for everyone.
This new histedit command (short for "rollup") is a variant of "fold" akin to
"hg amend" for working copy: it accumulates changes without interrupting
the user and asking for an updated commit message.
Before this patch, trimming description of each changesets in histedit
may split at intermediate multi-byte sequence.
This patch uses 'util.ellipsis' to trim description of each changesets
instead of directly slicing byte sequence.
Even though 'util.ellipsis' adds '...' as ellipsis when specified
string is trimmed (= this changes result of trimming), this patch uses
it, because:
- it can be used without any additional 'import', and
- ellipsis seems to be better than just trimming, for usability
When we specify a revision or a revset we just get the last element from the
list. For revsets this can lead to unintended effects where you specify a
revset like only() but instead histedit selects the highest revision in the
set as root. Therefore we should always use the lowest revision number as
root.
Mercurial earlier than 2.7 allows users to do anything other than
starting new histedit, even though current histedit is not finished or
aborted yet. So, unfinished (and maybe inconsistent now) histedit
states may be left and forgotten in repositories.
Before this patch, histedit extension shows the message below, when it
detects such inconsistent state:
abort: REV is not an ancestor of working directory
(update to REV or descendant and run "hg histedit --continue" again)
But this message is incorrect, unless old Mercurial is re-installed,
because Mercurial 2.7 or later disallows users to update the working
directory to another revision.
This patch changes the hint message to suggest "hg histedit --abort".
Now that we explicitly detect duplicated changesets, we can explicitly
detect missing ones. We cover the same cases as before, some others
and we offer a better error message in all cases.
Before this change one would issue rules with duplicated entries. For
this to happen some other changeset had to be missing to maintain the
rules length.
There is some clue that the previous code intended to handle that but it was
actually not the case.
As a result action could apply to the empty string '' changeset,
leading to the use the current working directory parent in some
operations.
