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match: delete unused root and cwd arguments to constructors (API) Most matchers no longer need the root and cwd arguments. patternmatcher and includematcher still need the root argument for subincludes. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D5929

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Dan Villiom Podlaski Christiansen
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r9999 Mercurial's default format for showing changes between two versions of
a file is compatible with the unified format of GNU diff, which can be
used by GNU patch and many other standard tools.
While this standard format is often enough, it does not encode the
following information:
- executable status and other permission bits
- copy or rename information
- changes in binary files
- creation or deletion of empty files
Mercurial also supports the extended diff format from the git VCS
which addresses these limitations. The git diff format is not produced
by default because a few widespread tools still do not understand this
format.
This means that when generating diffs from a Mercurial repository
Martin Geisler
Use hg role in help strings
r10973 (e.g. with :hg:`export`), you should be careful about things like file
Dan Villiom Podlaski Christiansen
setup: install translation files as package data...
r9999 copies and renames or other things mentioned above, because when
applying a standard diff to a different repository, this extra
information is lost. Mercurial's internal operations (like push and
pull) are not affected by this, because they use an internal binary
format for communicating changes.
To make Mercurial produce the git extended diff format, use the --git
option available for many commands, or set 'git = True' in the [diff]
Brodie Rao
help: refer to user configuration file more consistently...
r12083 section of your configuration file. You do not need to set this option
when importing diffs in this format or using them in the mq extension.