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mergetools: add new conflict marker format with diffs in I use 3-way conflict markers. Often when I resolve them, I manually compare one the base with one side and apply the differences to the other side. That can be hard when the conflict marker is large. This patch introduces a new type of conflict marker, which I'm hoping will make it easier to resolve conflicts. The new format uses `<<<<<<<` and `>>>>>>>` to open and close the markers, just like our existing 2-way and 3-way conflict markers. Instead of having 2 or 3 snapshots (left+right or left+base+right), it has a sequence of diffs. A diff looks like this: ``` ------- base +++++++ left a -b +c d ``` A diff that adds one side ("diff from nothing") has a `=======` header instead and does not have have `+` prefixed on its lines. A regular 3-way merge can be viewed as adding one side plus a diff between the base and the other side. It thus has two ways of being represented, depending on which side is being diffed: ``` <<<<<<< ======= left contents on left ------- base +++++++ right contents on -left +right >>>>>>> ``` or ``` <<<<<<< ------- base +++++++ left contents on -right +left ======= right contents on right >>>>>>> ``` I've made it so the new merge tool tries to pick a version that has the most common lines (no difference in the example above). I've called the new tool "mergediff" to stick to the convention of starting with "merge" if the tool tries a regular 3-way merge. The idea came from my pet VCS (placeholder name `jj`), which has support for octopus merges and other ways of ending up with merges of more than 3 versions. I wanted to be able to represent such conflicts in the working copy and therefore thought of this format (although I have not yet implemented it in my VCS). I then attended a meeting with Larry McVoy, who said BitKeeper has an option (`bk smerge -g`) for showing a similar format, which reminded me to actually attempt this in Mercurial. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D9551
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 r44031 The active mergestate is stored in ``.hg/merge`` when a merge is triggered
by commands like ``hg merge``, ``hg rebase``, etc. until the merge is
completed or aborted to track the 3-way merge state of individual files.
The contents of the directory are:
Conflicting files
-----------------
The local version of the conflicting files are stored with their
filenames as the hash of their paths.
state
-----
This mergestate file record is used by hg version prior to 2.9.1
and contains less data than ``state2``. If there is no contradiction
with ``state2``, we can assume that both are written at the same time.
In this case, data from ``state2`` is used. Otherwise, we use ``state``.
We read/write both ``state`` and ``state2`` records to ensure backward
compatibility.
state2
------
This record stores a superset of data in ``state``, including new kinds
of records in the future.
Each record can contain arbitrary content and has an associated type. This
`type` should be a letter. If `type` is uppercase, the record is mandatory:
versions of Mercurial that don't support it should abort. If `type` is
lowercase, the record can be safely ignored.
Currently known records:
| * L: the node of the "local" part of the merge (hexified version)
| * O: the node of the "other" part of the merge (hexified version)
| * F: a file to be merged entry
| * C: a change/delete or delete/change conflict
| * P: a path conflict (file vs directory)
| * f: a (filename, dictionary) tuple of optional values for a given file
| * X: unsupported mandatory record type (used in tests)
| * x: unsupported advisory record type (used in tests)
| * l: the labels for the parts of the merge.
Merge record states (indexed by filename):
| * u: unresolved conflict
| * r: resolved conflict
| * pu: unresolved path conflict (file conflicts with directory)
| * pr: resolved path conflict
The resolve command transitions between 'u' and 'r' for conflicts and
'pu' and 'pr' for path conflicts.
This format is a list of arbitrary records of the form:
[type][length][content]
`type` is a single character, `length` is a 4 byte integer, and
`content` is an arbitrary byte sequence of length `length`.
Mercurial versions prior to 3.7 have a bug where if there are
unsupported mandatory merge records, attempting to clear out the merge
state with hg update --clean or similar aborts. The 't' record type
works around that by writing out what those versions treat as an
advisory record, but later versions interpret as special: the first
character is the 'real' record type and everything onwards is the data.