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 a
$ hg clone a b
updating to branch default
0 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ cd a
$ echo '[paths]' >> .hg/hgrc
$ echo 'dupe = ../b' >> .hg/hgrc
$ echo 'expand = $SOMETHING/bar' >> .hg/hgrc
$ hg in dupe
comparing with $TESTTMP/b
no changes found
[1]
$ cd ..
$ hg -R a in dupe
comparing with $TESTTMP/b
no changes found
[1]
$ cd a
$ hg paths
dupe = $TESTTMP/b
expand = $TESTTMP/a/$SOMETHING/bar
$ SOMETHING=foo hg paths
dupe = $TESTTMP/b
expand = $TESTTMP/a/foo/bar
$ SOMETHING=/foo hg paths
dupe = $TESTTMP/b
expand = /foo/bar
$ hg paths -q
dupe
expand
$ hg paths dupe
$TESTTMP/b
$ hg paths -q dupe
$ hg paths unknown
not found!
[1]
$ hg paths -q unknown
[1]
$ cd ..
'file:' disables [paths] entries for clone destination
$ cat >> $HGRCPATH <<EOF
> [paths]
> gpath1 = http://hg.example.com
> EOF
$ hg clone a gpath1
abort: cannot create new http repository
[255]
$ hg clone a file:gpath1
updating to branch default
0 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ cd gpath1
$ hg -q id
000000000000