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cmdutil: add class to restore dirstate during unexpected failure...
cmdutil: add class to restore dirstate during unexpected failure Before this patch, after "dirstate.write()" execution, there was no way to restore dirstate to the original status before "dirstate.write()". In some code paths, "dirstate.invalidate()" is used as a kind of "restore .hg/dirstate to the original status", but it just avoids writing changes in memory out, and doesn't actually restore the ".hg/dirstate" file. To fix the issue that the recent (in memory) dirstate isn't visible to external processes (e.g. "precommit" hooks), "dirstate.write()" should be invoked before invocation of external processes. But at the same time, ".hg/dirstate" should be restored to its content before "dirstate.write()" during an unexpected failure in some cases. This patch adds the class "dirstateguard" to easily restore ".hg/dirstate" during unexpected failures. Typical usecase of it is: # (1) build dirstate up .... # (2) write dirstate out, and backup ".hg/dirstate" dsguard = dirstateguard(repo, 'scopename') try: # (3) execute somethig to do: # this may imply making some additional changes on dirstate .... # (4) unlink backed-up dirstate file at the end of dsguard scope dsguard.close() finally: # (5) if execution is aborted before "dsguard.close()", # ".hg/dirstate" is restored from the backup dsguard.release() For this kind of issue, an "extending transaction" approach (in https://titanpad.com/mercurial32-sprint) seems to not be suitable, because: - transaction nesting occurs in some cases (e.g. "shelve => rebase"), and - "dirstate" may be already modified since the beginning of OUTER transaction scope, then - dirstate should be backed up into the file other than "dirstate.journal" at the beginning of INNER transaction scope, but - such alternative backup files are useless for transaction itself, and increases complication of its implementation "transaction" and "dirstateguard" differ from each other also in "what it should do for .hg/dirstate" in cases other than success. ============== ======= ======== ============= type success fail "hg rollback" ============== ======= ======== ============= transaction keep keep restore dirstateguard keep restore (not implied) ============== ======= ======== ============= Some collaboration between transaction and dirstate will probably be introduced in the future. But this layer is needed in all cases.
Brodie Rao - - Load All Authors

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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.