tests/test-permissions.t

effectflag: store an empty effect flag for the moment

The idea behind effect flag is to store additional information in obs-markers
about what changed between a changeset and its successor(s). It's a low-level
information that comes without guarantees.

This information can be computed a posteriori, but only if we have all
changesets locally. This is not the case with distributed workflows where you
work with several people or on several computers (eg: laptop + build server).

Storing the effect-flag as a bitfield has several advantages:

- It's compact, we are using one byte per obs-marker at most for the effect-
  flag.
- It's compoundable, the obsfate log approach needs to display evolve history
  that could spans several obs-markers. Computing the effect-flag between a
  changeset and its grand-grand-grand-successor is simple thanks to the
  bitfield.

The effect-flag design has also some limitations:

- Evolving a changeset and reverting these changes just after would lead to
  two obs-markers with the same effect-flag without information that the first
  and third changesets are the same.

The effect-flag current design is a trade-off between compactness and
usefulness.

Storing this information helps commands to display a more complete and
understandable evolve history. For example, obslog (an Evolve command) use it
to improve its output:

x  62206adfd571 (34302) obscache: skip updating outdated obscache...
|    rewritten(parent) by Matthieu Laneuville <matthieu.laneuville@octobus...
|    rewritten(content) by Boris Feld <[e-mail]>

The effect flag is stored in obs-markers metadata while we iterate on the
information we want to store. We plan to extend the existing obsmarkers
bit-field when the effect flag design will be stabilized.

It's different from the CommitCustody concept, effect-flag are not signed and
can be forged. It's also different from the operation metadata as the command
name (for example: amend) could alter a changeset in different ways (changing
the content with hg amend, changing the description with hg amend -e, changing
the user with hg amend -U). Also it's compatible with every custom command
that writes obs-markers without needing to be updated.

The effect-flag is placed behind an experimental flag set to off by default.

Hook the saving of effect flag in create markers, but store only an empty one
for the moment, I will refine the values in effect flag in following patches.

For more information, see:

  https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/ChangesetEvolutionDevel#Record_types_of_operation

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D533

#require unix-permissions no-root

  $ hg init t
  $ cd t

  $ echo foo > a
  $ hg add a

  $ hg commit -m "1"

  $ hg verify
  checking changesets
  checking manifests
  crosschecking files in changesets and manifests
  checking files
  1 files, 1 changesets, 1 total revisions

  $ chmod -r .hg/store/data/a.i

  $ hg verify
  checking changesets
  checking manifests
  crosschecking files in changesets and manifests
  checking files
  abort: Permission denied: $TESTTMP/t/.hg/store/data/a.i
  [255]

  $ chmod +r .hg/store/data/a.i

  $ hg verify
  checking changesets
  checking manifests
  crosschecking files in changesets and manifests
  checking files
  1 files, 1 changesets, 1 total revisions

  $ chmod -w .hg/store/data/a.i

  $ echo barber > a
  $ hg commit -m "2"
  trouble committing a!
  abort: Permission denied: $TESTTMP/t/.hg/store/data/a.i
  [255]

  $ chmod -w .

  $ hg diff --nodates
  diff -r 2a18120dc1c9 a
  --- a/a
  +++ b/a
  @@ -1,1 +1,1 @@
  -foo
  +barber

  $ chmod +w .

  $ chmod +w .hg/store/data/a.i
  $ mkdir dir
  $ touch dir/a
  $ hg status
  M a
  ? dir/a
  $ chmod -rx dir

#if no-fsmonitor

(fsmonitor makes "hg status" avoid accessing to "dir")

  $ hg status
  dir: Permission denied
  M a

#endif

Reenable perm to allow deletion:

  $ chmod +rx dir

  $ cd ..