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subrepo: handle svn tracked/unknown directory collisions...
subrepo: handle svn tracked/unknown directory collisions This happens more often than expected. Say you have an svn subrepository with python code. Python would have generated unknown .pyc files. Now, you rebase this setup on a revision where a directory containing python code does not exist. Subversion is first asked to remove this directory when updating, but will not because it contains untracked items. Then it will have to bring back the directory after the merge but will fail because it now collides with an untracked directory. Using --force is not very elegant and only works with svn >= 1.5 but the only alternative I can think of is to write our own purge command for subversion.

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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.