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filecontext: use 'is not None' to check for filelog existence...
filecontext: use 'is not None' to check for filelog existence Previously we used 'if filelog:' to check if the filelog existed. If the instance did exist, this pattern then calls len() on the filelog to see if it is empty. I'm developing a filelog replacement that doesn't have len() implemented, so it's better to do an explicit 'is not None' check here instead. Also change _changeid() to return the _changeid attribute if it has it. Previously it would try to obtain it from the _changectx(), and if that did not exist it would construct the _changectx() using the linkrev. In the extension I'm working on, filectx's don't have easy access to linkrevs so avoiding this when possible is better.

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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.