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copies: add config option for writing copy metadata to file and/or changset...
copies: add config option for writing copy metadata to file and/or changset This introduces a config option that lets you choose to write copy metadata to the changeset extras instead of to filelog. There's also an option to write it to both places. I imagine that may possibly be useful when transitioning an existing repo. The copy metadata is stored as two fields in extras: one for copies since p1 and one for copies since p2. I may need to add more information later in order to make copy tracing faster. Specifically, I'm thinking out recording which files were added or removed so that copies._chaincopies() doesn't have to look at the manifest for that. But that would just be an optimization and that can be added once we know if it's necessary. I have also considered saving space by using replacing the destination file path by an index into the "files" list, but that can also be changed later (but before the feature is ready to release). Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D6183
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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
(e.g. with :hg:`export`), you should be careful about things like file
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]
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.