Internal merge tool :dump implies premerge. Therefore, files aren't
dumped, if premerge runs successfully.
This undocumented behavior might confuse users, if they want to always
dump files. But just making :dump omit premerge might cause backward
compatibility issue for existing automation.
This patch adds new internal merge tool :forcedump, which works as
same as :dump, but omits premerge always.
Internal tools annotated with "nomerge" should merge "change and
delete" correctly, but _forcedump() can't. Therefore, it is annotated
with "mergeonly" to always omit premerge, even though it doesn't merge
files actually.
This patch also adds explanation about premerge to :dump, to clarify
how :dump actually works.
BTW, this patch specifies internal tools with "internal:" prefix in
newly added test scenario in test-merge-tools.t, even though this
prefix is already deprecated. This is only for similarity to other
tests in test-merge-tools.t.
Before this patch, internal merge tool :prompt shows "no tool found to
merge FILE" line, even if :prompt is explicitly specified as a tool to
be used.
This patch shows warning message about choice of :prompt only at an
actual fallback, in which case any tool is rejected by capability for
binary or symlink.
It is for backward compatibility to omit warning message in
"changedelete" case.
Some merge tools (like Araxis?) can pick merge mode based on the file
extension. That didn't work well when temporary files were given random
suffixes. It seems to work better when the random part is before the extension.
As usual, when using $output, $local will have the .orig extension. That could
perhaps be the subject of another change another day.
The way default marker template was defined before this patch,
the spacing before dash in conflict markes was dependent on
whether changeset is a tip one or not. This is a relevant part
of template:
'{ifeq(tags, "tip", "", "{tags} "}'
If revision is a tip revision with no other tags, this would
resolve to an empty string, but for revisions which are not tip
and don't have any other tags, this would resolve to a single
space string. In the end this causes weirdnesses like the ones
you can see in the affected tests.
This is a not a big deal, but double spacing may be visually
less pleasant.
Please note that test changes where commit hashes change are
the result of marking files as resolved without removing markers.
It makes far more sense to leave these conflicts unresolved and kick back to
the user than to just assume that the local version be chosen. There are almost
certainly buggy scripts and applications using Mercurial in the wild that do
merges or rebases non-interactively, and then assume that if the operation
succeeded there's nothing the user needs to pay attention to.
A file being missing is a completely valid situation in which the user may want
to re-resolve merge conflicts. Mercurial already maintains backups of local
data, so this turns out to be easy to handle.
Previously we'd abort the merge entirely if there was an EOF at the prompt.
This is unnecessary -- it's much better to simply fail and treat the file as
unresolved instead.
In upcoming patches we're going to be making some improvements to the ':prompt'
merge tool, and one of them is recovering appropriately from exceptions. It is
important in such cases to make sure that the merge state is written out
properly.
I went through the output and verified that it all makes sense.
Very often in my life I'm finding that the only configured merge tool
present on the system is vimdiff[0], and it's currently impossible (as
far as I can tell) short of specifying `ui.merge = `[1] to actually
*disable* a merge tool. This allows vimdiff-haters to put:
[merge-tools]
vimdiff.disable = yes
in their ~/.hgrc and never see vimdiff again. I'm stopping short of
putting this as a commented out entry in the sample new user hgrc
(seen when a user runs `hg config --edit` with no ~/.hgrc) for now,
but I might come back and do that later.
0: vimdiff is at an awkward intersection: it's usually installed by
the vim package which is often installed as a vi substitute, so it's
mere presence doesn't imply me wanting it, unlike (say) kdiff3.
1: There's a related problem I ran into today where specifying
`ui.merge = :merge` failed because :merge isn't a command, which I
think is a regression. I'll try and figure that out and at least file
a bug.
The current output for a failed merge with conflict markers looks something like:
merging foo
warning: conflicts during merge.
merging foo incomplete! (edit conflicts, then use 'hg resolve --mark')
merging bar
warning: conflicts during merge.
merging bar incomplete! (edit conflicts, then use 'hg resolve --mark')
We're going to change the way merges are done to perform all premerges before
all merges, so that the output above would look like:
merging foo
merging bar
warning: conflicts during merge.
merging foo incomplete! (edit conflicts, then use 'hg resolve --mark')
warning: conflicts during merge.
merging bar incomplete! (edit conflicts, then use 'hg resolve --mark')
The 'warning: conflicts during merge' line has no context, so is pretty
confusing.
This patch will change the future output to:
merging foo
merging bar
warning: conflicts while merging foo! (edit, then use 'hg resolve --mark')
warning: conflicts while merging bar! (edit, then use 'hg resolve --mark')
The hint on how to resolve the conflicts makes this a bit unwieldy, but solving
that is tricky because we already hint that people run 'hg resolve' to retry
unresolved merges. The 'hg resolve --mark' mostly applies to conflict marker
based resolution.
This means that in ms.resolve we must call merge after calling premerge. This
doesn't yet mean that all premerges happen before any merges -- however, this
does get us closer to our goal.
The output differences are because we recompute the merge tool. The only
user-visible difference caused by this patch is that if the tool is missing
we'll print the warning twice. Not a huge deal, though.
To detect change of a file without redundant comparison of file
content, dirstate recognizes a file as certainly clean, if:
(1) it is already known as "normal",
(2) dirstate entry for it has valid (= not "-1") timestamp, and
(3) mode, size and timestamp of it on the filesystem are as same as
ones expected in dirstate
This works as expected in many cases, but doesn't in the corner case
that changing a file keeps mode, size and timestamp of it on the
filesystem.
The timetable below shows steps in one of typical such situations:
---- ----------------------------------- ----------------
timestamp of "f"
----------------
dirstate file-
time action mem file system
---- ----------------------------------- ---- ----- -----
N -1 ***
- make file "f" clean N
- execute 'hg foobar'
- instantiate 'dirstate' -1 -1
- 'dirstate.normal("f")' N -1
(e.g. via dirty check)
- change "f", but keep size N
N+1
- release wlock
- 'dirstate.write()' N N
- 'hg status' shows "f" as "clean" N N N
---- ----------------------------------- ---- ----- -----
The most important point is that 'dirstate.write()' is executed at N+1
or later. This causes writing dirstate timestamp N of "f" out
successfully. If it is executed at N, 'parsers.pack_dirstate()'
replaces timestamp N with "-1" before actual writing dirstate out.
Occasional test failure for unexpected file status is typical example
of this corner case. Batch execution with small working directory is
finished in no time, and rarely satisfies condition (2) above.
This issue can occur in cases below;
- 'hg revert --rev REV' for revisions other than the parent
- failure of 'merge.update()' before 'merge.recordupdates()'
The root cause of this issue is that files are changed without
flushing in-memory dirstate changes via 'repo.commit()' (even though
omitting 'dirstate.normallookup()' on changed files also causes this
issue).
To detect changes of files correctly, this patch writes in-memory
dirstate changes out explicitly after marking files as clean in
'workingctx._checklookup()', which is invoked via 'repo.status()'.
After this change, timetable is changed as below:
---- ----------------------------------- ----------------
timestamp of "f"
----------------
dirstate file-
time action mem file system
---- ----------------------------------- ---- ----- -----
N -1 ***
- make file "f" clean N
- execute 'hg foobar'
- instantiate 'dirstate' -1 -1
- 'dirstate.normal("f")' N -1
(e.g. via dirty check)
----------------------------------- ---- ----- -----
- 'dirsttate.write()' -1 -1
----------------------------------- ---- ----- -----
- change "f", but keep size N
N+1
- release wlock
- 'dirstate.write()' -1 -1
- 'hg status' -1 -1 N
---- ----------------------------------- ---- ----- -----
To reproduce this issue in tests certainly, this patch emulates some
timing critical actions as below:
- timestamp of "f" in '.hg/dirstate' is -1 at the beginning
'hg debugrebuildstate' before command invocation ensures it.
- make file "f" clean at N
- change "f" at N
'touch -t 200001010000' before and after command invocation
changes mtime of "f" to "2000-01-01 00:00" (= N).
- invoke 'dirstate.write()' via 'repo.status()' at N
'fakedirstatewritetime.py' forces 'pack_dirstate()' to use
"2000-01-01 00:00" as "now", only if 'pack_dirstate()' is invoked
via 'workingctx._checklookup()'.
- invoke 'dirstate.write()' via releasing wlock at N+1 (or "not at N")
'pack_dirstate()' via releasing wlock uses actual timestamp at
runtime as "now", and it should be different from the "2000-01-01
00:00" of "f".
BTW, this patch also changes 'test-largefiles-misc.t', because adding
'dirstate.write()' makes recent dirstate changes visible to external
process.
Before this patch, reverting a file to the revision other than the
parent doesn't update dirstate. This seems to expect that timestamp
and/or size will be changed by reverting.
But if (1) dirstate of file "f" is filled with timestamp before
reverting and (2) size and timestamp of file "f" isn't changed at
reverting, file "f" is recognized as CLEAN unexpectedly.
This patch applies "dirstate.normallookup()" on reverted file, if size
isn't changed.
Making "localrepository.wwrite()" return length of written data is
needed to avoid additional (and redundant) "lstat(2)" on the reverted
file. "filectx.size()" can't be used to know it, because data may be
decoded at being written out.
BTW, interactive reverting may cause similar problem, too. But this
patch doesn't focus on fixing it, because (1) interactive (maybe slow)
reverting changes one (or both) of size/timestamp of reverted files in
many usecases, and (2) changes to fix it seems not suitable for stable
branch.
debugsetparents is a debug command and does not provide the same
guarantees as non-debug commands do. In particular, when the user sets
a different parent, any clean files will remain clean in the dirstate
even though the new parent might have a different version of the file
(so it should appear modified compared to the new parent). Let's
instead achieve the same effect by updating to the new parent and
reverting the contents back to what they were.
This fix can be tested by passing '--config
debug.dirstate.delaywrite=2' to the 'hg update' command in the
beforemerge().
We already have a ":" after the user name to denote the start of the
description. The current usage of quotes around the description is
problematic as the truncation to 80 chars is likely to drop the
closing quote. This may confuse syntax coloration in some editors.
Adds a conflict marker formatter that can produce custom conflict marker
descriptions. It can be set via ui.mergemarkertemplate. The old behavior
can be used still by setting ui.mergemarkers=basic.
The default format is similar to:
{node|short} {tag} {branch} {bookmarks} - {author}: "{desc|firstline}"
And renders as:
contextblahblah
<<<<<<< local: c7fdd7ce4652 - durham: "Fix broken stuff in my feature branch"
line from my changes
=======
line from the other changes
>>>>>>> other: a3e55d7f4d38 master - sid0: "This is a commit to master th...
morecontextblahblah
A follow-up to 6847621b4da6.
internal:merge should never be picked for merging symlinks ... but in the test
suite we have HGMERGE="internal:merge" which bypasses all the usual merge-tool
cleverness. Without any output it can be hard to figure out what happened and
where the problem is.
Simplemerge is not symlink aware and will never do the the right thing on
symlinks. It would read the symlink as a file and abort with 'No such file or
directory' on dangling symlinks.
Instead, internal:merge now simply fails to merge symlinks.
hgrc(5) already implies that this works, so we might as well support it.
Another approach would be to implement this in util.findexe(): that
would benefit other callers of findexe(), e.g. convert and anyone
calling the user's editor. But findexe() is really implemented in
both posix.py and windows.py, so this would make both of those modules
depend on util.py: not good. So keep it narrow and only for merge
tools.
ui.forcemerge is set before calling into merge or resolve commands, then unset
to prevent ui pollution for further operations.
ui.forcemerge takes precedence over HGMERGE, but mimics HGMERGE behavior if the
given --tool is not found by the merge-tools machinery. This makes it possible
to do: hg resolve --tool="python mymerge.py" FILE
With this approach, HGMERGE and ui.merge are not harmed by --tool
