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histedit: switch state to store node instead of ctx...
histedit: switch state to store node instead of ctx Currently, if the node no longer exists, the state object fails to load and pukes with an exception. Changing the state object to only store the node allows callers to handle these cases. For instance, in bootstrapcontinue we can now detect that the node doesn't exist and exit gracefully. The alternative is to have the state object store something like None when the node doesn't exist, but then outside callers won't be able to access the old node for recovery (unless we store both the node and the ctx, but why bother). More importantly it allows us to detect this case when doing hg histedit --abort. Currently this situation results in both --continue and --abort being broken and the user has to rm .hg/histedit-state to unwedge their repo. (description by Durham Goode)

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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.