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posix: always seek to EOF when opening a file in append mode...
posix: always seek to EOF when opening a file in append mode Python 3 already does this, so skip it there. Consider the program: #include <stdio.h> int main() { FILE *f = fopen("narf", "w"); fprintf(f, "narf\n"); fclose(f); f = fopen("narf", "a"); printf("%ld\n", ftell(f)); fprintf(f, "troz\n"); printf("%ld\n", ftell(f)); return 0; } on macOS, FreeBSD, and Linux with glibc, this program prints 5 10 but on musl libc (Alpine Linux and probably others) this prints 0 10 By my reading of https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/fopen.html this is technically correct, specifically: > Opening a file with append mode (a as the first character in the > mode argument) shall cause all subsequent writes to the file to be > forced to the then current end-of-file, regardless of intervening > calls to fseek(). in other words, the file position doesn't really matter in append-mode files, and we can't depend on it being at all meaningful unless we perform a seek() before tell() after open(..., 'a'). Experimentally after a .write() we can do a .tell() and it'll always be reasonable, but I'm unclear from reading the specification if that's a smart thing to rely on. This matches what we do on Windows and what Python 3 does for free, so let's just be consistent. Thanks to Yuya for the idea.

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test-revisions.t
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$ hg init repo
$ cd repo
$ echo 0 > a
$ hg ci -qAm 0
$ for i in 5 8 14 43 167; do
> hg up -q 0
> echo $i > a
> hg ci -qm $i
> done
$ cat <<EOF >> .hg/hgrc
> [alias]
> l = log -T '{rev}:{shortest(node,1)}\n'
> EOF
$ hg l
5:00f
4:7ba5d
3:7ba57
2:72
1:9
0:b
$ cat <<EOF >> .hg/hgrc
> [experimental]
> revisions.disambiguatewithin=not 4
> EOF
$ hg l
5:00
4:7ba5d
3:7b
2:72
1:9
0:b
9 was unambiguous and still is
$ hg l -r 9
1:9
7 was ambiguous and still is
$ hg l -r 7
abort: 00changelog.i@7: ambiguous identifier!
[255]
7b is no longer ambiguous
$ hg l -r 7b
3:7b
$ cd ..