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treemanifest: make node reuse match flat manifest behavior...
treemanifest: make node reuse match flat manifest behavior In a flat manifest, a node with the same content but different parents is still considered a new node. In the current tree manifests however, if the content is the same, we ignore the parents entirely and just reuse the existing node. In our external treemanifest extension, we want to allow having one treemanifest for every flat manifests, as a way of easeing the migration to treemanifests. To make this possible, let's change the root node treemanifest behavior to match the behavior for flat manifests, so we can have a 1:1 relationship. While this sounds like a BC breakage, it's not actually a state users can normally get in because: A) you can't make empty commits, and B) even if you try to make an empty commit (by making a commit then amending it's changes away), the higher level commit logic in localrepo.commitctx() forces the commit to use the original p1 manifest node if no files were changed. So this would only affect extensions and automation that reached passed the normal localrepo.commit() logic straight into the manifest logic.

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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.