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scmutil: accept multiple predecessors in 'replacements' (API) This changeset makes 'cleanupnodes' accepts multiple predecessors as `replacements` keys. The same as it accepts multiple successors as `replacements` values. To avoid breaking all callers, the old and new ways are currently valid at the same time. We'll deprecate and drop the old way later. This change is the first step toward a better tracking of "fold" event in the evolution history. While working on the "rewind" command (in the evolve extension), we realized that first class tracking of folds are necessary. We already have good tracking of splits. When walking the evolution history from predecessors to successors, that makes for a clear distinction between having multiple successors because of the actual splitting of a changeset or content-divergences. The "rewind" command allows restoring older evolution of a stack of changesets. One of its mode walks the evolution history to automatically find appropriate predecessors. This means walking from successors to predecessors. In this case, we need to be able to make the same distinction between an actual fold and other cases. So we will have to track folds explicitly. This changesets only focus on making it possible to express fold at the `cleanupnodes` API level. The actual tracking will be implemented later.

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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.