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convert: introduce --full for converting all files...
convert: introduce --full for converting all files Convert will normally only process files that were changed in a source revision, apply the filemap, and record it has a change in the target repository. (If it ends up not really changing anything, nothing changes.) That means that _if_ the filemap is changed before continuing an incremental convert, the change will only kick in when the files it affects are modified in a source revision and thus processed. With --full, convert will make a full conversion every time and process all files in the source repo and remove target repo files that shouldn't be there. Filemap changes will thus kick in on the first converted revision, no matter what is changed. This flag should in most cases not make any difference but will make convert significantly slower. Other names has been considered for this feature, such as "resync", "sync", "checkunmodified", "all" or "allfiles", but I found that they were less obvious and required more explanation than "full" and were harder to describe consistently.

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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.