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stdio: raise StdioError if something goes wrong in ui.flush...
stdio: raise StdioError if something goes wrong in ui.flush The prior code used to ignore all errors, which was intended to deal with a decade-old problem with writing to broken pipes on Windows. However, that code inadvertantly went a lot further, making it impossible to detect *all* I/O errors on stdio ... but only sometimes. What actually happened was that if Mercurial wrote less than a stdio buffer's worth of output (the overwhelmingly common case for most commands), any error that occurred would get swallowed here. But if the buffering strategy changed, an unhandled IOError could be raised from any number of other locations. Because we now have a top-level StdioError handler, and ui._write and ui._write_err (and now flush!) will raise that exception, we have one rational place to detect and handle these errors.

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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.