phase: better error message when --force is needed
When trying to turn a draft changeset into a secret changeset, I was
told:
% hg phase -s .
cannot move 1 changesets to a more permissive phase, use --force
no phases changed
That message struck me as being backwards -- the secret phase feels
less permissive to me since it restricts the changesets from being
pushed.
We don't use the word "permissive" elsewhere, 'hg help phase' talks
about "lower phases" and "higher phases". I therefore reformulated the
error message to be
cannot move 1 changesets to a higher phase, use --force
That is not perfect either, but more in line with the help text. An
alternative could be
cannot move phase backwards for 1 changesets, use --force
which fits better with the help text for --force.
$ cat > writepatterns.py <<EOF
> import sys
>
> path = sys.argv[1]
> patterns = sys.argv[2:]
>
> fp = file(path, 'wb')
> for pattern in patterns:
> count = int(pattern[0:-1])
> char = pattern[-1] + '\n'
> fp.write(char*count)
> fp.close()
> EOF
prepare repo
$ hg init a
$ cd a
These initial lines of Xs were not in the original file used to generate
the patch. So all the patch hunks need to be applied to a constant offset
within this file. If the offset isn't tracked then the hunks can be
applied to the wrong lines of this file.
$ python ../writepatterns.py a 34X 10A 1B 10A 1C 10A 1B 10A 1D 10A 1B 10A 1E 10A 1B 10A
$ hg commit -Am adda
adding a
This is a cleaner patch generated via diff
In this case it reproduces the problem when
the output of hg export does not
import patch
$ hg import -v -m 'b' -d '2 0' - <<EOF
> --- a/a 2009-12-08 19:26:17.000000000 -0800
> +++ b/a 2009-12-08 19:26:17.000000000 -0800
> @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
> A
> A
> B
> -A
> +a
> A
> A
> A
> @@ -53,7 +53,7 @@
> A
> A
> B
> -A
> +a
> A
> A
> A
> @@ -75,7 +75,7 @@
> A
> A
> B
> -A
> +a
> A
> A
> A
> EOF
applying patch from stdin
patching file a
Hunk #1 succeeded at 43 (offset 34 lines).
Hunk #2 succeeded at 87 (offset 34 lines).
Hunk #3 succeeded at 109 (offset 34 lines).
a
created 189885cecb41
compare imported changes against reference file
$ python ../writepatterns.py aref 34X 10A 1B 1a 9A 1C 10A 1B 10A 1D 10A 1B 1a 9A 1E 10A 1B 1a 9A
$ diff aref a
$ cd ..