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import: wrap a transaction around the whole command...
import: wrap a transaction around the whole command Now 'rollback' after 'import' is less surprising: it rolls back all of the imported changesets, not just the last one. As an extra added benefit, you don't need 'rollback -f' after 'import --bypass', which was an undesired side effect of fixing issue2998 (59e8bc22506e).. Note that this is a different take on issue963, which complained that rollback after importing multiple patches returned the working dir parent to the starting point, not to the second-last patch applied. Since we now rollback the entire import, returning the working dir to the starting point is entirely logical. So this change also undoes a732eebf1958, the fix to issue963, and updates its tests accordingly. Bottom line: rollback after import was weird before issue963, understandable since the fix for issue963, and even better now.

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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.