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ui: change default path fallback mechanism (issue4796)...
ui: change default path fallback mechanism (issue4796) The previous paths API code always fell back to the default path. This was wrong because if a requested path doesn't exist, that should error. Only if no path was requested should we fall back to the default. As part of implementing the test case for issue 4796, it was discovered that the "repository does not exist" error message raised by localrepository.__init__ wasn't being seen because the paths API validates paths before localrepository.__init__ was being called. The exception and error message from localrepository.__init__ has been introduced to getpath(). This necessitated rewriting expandpath() both to catch the exception and to have proper default fallback. This code is more complicated than I'd like. But making all tests pass was a big chore. As more code moves to getpath(), there will likely be opportunities to improve things a bit.
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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.