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rollback: avoid unsafe rollback when not at tip (issue2998)...
rollback: avoid unsafe rollback when not at tip (issue2998) You can get into trouble if you commit, update back to an older changeset, and then rollback. The update removes your valuable changes from the working dir, then rollback removes them history. Oops: you've just irretrievably lost data running nothing but core Mercurial commands. (More subtly: rollback from a shared clone that was already at an older changeset -- no update required, just rollback from the wrong directory.) The fix assumes that only "commit" transactions have irreplaceable data, and allows rolling back non-commit transactions as always. But when rolling back a commit, check that the working dir is checked out to tip, i.e. the changeset we're about to destroy. If not, abort. You can get back the old (dangerous) behaviour with --force.

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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.