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interfaces: introduce and use a protocol class for the `mpatch` module...
interfaces: introduce and use a protocol class for the `mpatch` module See f2832de2a46c for details when this was done for the `bdiff` module. Two things worth pointing out- 1) The `cffi` module "inherits" the `pure` implementation of `patchedsize()` because of its wildcard import. 2) It's odd that the `mpatchError` lives in both `pure` and `cext` modules. I initially thought to move the exception into the new class, and make the existing class name an alias to the class in the new location, but the exception is created in C code by the `cext` module, so that won't work. I don't think a protocol class is approriate, because there's nothing special about the class to distinguish from any other `Exception`. Fortunately, nobody is catching this exception in core, so we can kick the can down the road.
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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.