backout: deprecate/hide support for backing out merges
This has never worked usefully:
- it can't undo a completely unwanted merge, as it leaves the merge in the DAG
- it can't undo a faulty merge as that means doing a merge correctly,
not simply reverting to one or the other parent
Both of these kinds of merge also require coordinated action among
developers to avoid the bad merge continuing to affect future merges,
so we should stop pretending that backout is of any help here.
As backing out a merge now requires a hidden option, it can't be done
by accident, but will continue to 'work' for anyone who's already
dependent on --parent for some unknown reason.
$ hg init
Revision 0:
$ echo "unchanged" > unchanged
$ echo "remove me" > remove
$ echo "copy me" > copy
$ echo "move me" > move
$ for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9; do
> echo "merge ok $i" >> zzz1_merge_ok
> done
$ echo "merge bad" > zzz2_merge_bad
$ hg ci -Am "revision 0"
adding copy
adding move
adding remove
adding unchanged
adding zzz1_merge_ok
adding zzz2_merge_bad
Revision 1:
$ hg rm remove
$ hg mv move moved
$ hg cp copy copied
$ echo "added" > added
$ hg add added
$ echo "new first line" > zzz1_merge_ok
$ hg cat zzz1_merge_ok >> zzz1_merge_ok
$ echo "new last line" >> zzz2_merge_bad
$ hg ci -m "revision 1"
Local changes to revision 0:
$ hg co 0
4 files updated, 0 files merged, 3 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ echo "new last line" >> zzz1_merge_ok
$ echo "another last line" >> zzz2_merge_bad
$ hg diff --nodates | grep "^[+-][^<>]"
--- a/zzz1_merge_ok
+++ b/zzz1_merge_ok
+new last line
--- a/zzz2_merge_bad
+++ b/zzz2_merge_bad
+another last line
$ hg st
M zzz1_merge_ok
M zzz2_merge_bad
Local merge with bad merge tool:
$ HGMERGE=false hg co
merging zzz1_merge_ok
merging zzz2_merge_bad
merging zzz2_merge_bad failed!
3 files updated, 1 files merged, 2 files removed, 1 files unresolved
use 'hg resolve' to retry unresolved file merges
[1]
$ hg co 0
merging zzz1_merge_ok
merging zzz2_merge_bad
warning: conflicts during merge.
merging zzz2_merge_bad failed!
2 files updated, 1 files merged, 3 files removed, 1 files unresolved
use 'hg resolve' to retry unresolved file merges
[1]
$ hg diff --nodates | grep "^[+-][^<>]"
--- a/zzz1_merge_ok
+++ b/zzz1_merge_ok
+new last line
--- a/zzz2_merge_bad
+++ b/zzz2_merge_bad
+another last line
+=======
$ hg st
M zzz1_merge_ok
M zzz2_merge_bad
? zzz2_merge_bad.orig
Local merge with conflicts:
$ hg co
merging zzz1_merge_ok
merging zzz2_merge_bad
warning: conflicts during merge.
merging zzz2_merge_bad failed!
3 files updated, 1 files merged, 2 files removed, 1 files unresolved
use 'hg resolve' to retry unresolved file merges
[1]
$ hg co 0
merging zzz1_merge_ok
merging zzz2_merge_bad
warning: conflicts during merge.
merging zzz2_merge_bad failed!
2 files updated, 1 files merged, 3 files removed, 1 files unresolved
use 'hg resolve' to retry unresolved file merges
[1]
$ hg diff --nodates | grep "^[+-][^<>]"
--- a/zzz1_merge_ok
+++ b/zzz1_merge_ok
+new last line
--- a/zzz2_merge_bad
+++ b/zzz2_merge_bad
+another last line
+=======
+=======
+new last line
+=======
$ hg st
M zzz1_merge_ok
M zzz2_merge_bad
? zzz2_merge_bad.orig
Local merge without conflicts:
$ hg revert zzz2_merge_bad
$ hg co
merging zzz1_merge_ok
4 files updated, 1 files merged, 2 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ hg diff --nodates | grep "^[+-][^<>]"
--- a/zzz1_merge_ok
+++ b/zzz1_merge_ok
+new last line
$ hg st
M zzz1_merge_ok
? zzz2_merge_bad.orig