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lookup: add option to disambiguate prefix within revset...
lookup: add option to disambiguate prefix within revset When resolving a nodeid prefix that is not unique within the repo and the user has configured a revset that they want to disambiguate within, we now try to look up within that revset before we fail. If there is a unique match within the revset, we use that. This is of course most effective at allowing a short prefix if the revset contains few nodes. For most of our internal users at Google, "not public()" is sufficiently small that a hex digit or two is enough. The implementation is currently pretty slow, but good enough for small revsets (which is the expected use case). The scan in the revset is linear. We may want to use a prefix tree if we want to allow users to use a larger revset. Credit for the idea goes to Kyle Lippincott. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D4037
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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.