revset: introduce new operator "##" to concatenate strings/symbols at runtime
Before this patch, there is no way to concatenate strings at runtime.
For example, to search for the issue ID "1234" in descriptions against
all of "issue 1234", "issue:1234", issue1234" and "bug(1234)"
patterns, the revset below should be written fully from scratch for
each issue ID.
grep(r"\bissue[ :]?1234\b|\bbug\(1234\)")
This patch introduces new infix operator "##" to concatenate
strings/symbols at runtime. Operator symbol "##" comes from the same
one of C pre-processor. This concatenation allows parametrizing a part
of strings in revset queries.
In the case of example above, the definition of the revset alias using
operator "##" below can search issue ID "1234" in complicated patterns
by "issue(1234)" simply:
issue($1) = grep(r"\bissue[ :]?" ## $1 ## r"\b|\bbug\(" ## $1 ## r"\)")
"##" operator does:
- concatenate not only strings but also symbols into the string
Exact distinction between strings and symbols seems not to be
convenience, because it is tiresome for users (and
"revset.getstring" treats both similarly)
For example of revset alias "issue()", "issue(1234)" is easier
than "issue('1234')".
- have higher priority than any other prefix, infix and postfix
operators (like as "##" of C pre-processor)
This patch (re-)assigns the priority 20 to "##", and 21 to "(",
because priority 19 is already assigned to "-" as prefix "negate".
Source bundle was generated with the following script:
# hg init
# echo a > a
# ln -s a l
# hg ci -Ama -d'0 0'
# mkdir b
# echo a > b/a
# chmod +x b/a
# hg ci -Amb -d'1 0'
$ hg init
$ hg -q pull "$TESTDIR/bundles/test-manifest.hg"
The next call is expected to return nothing:
$ hg manifest
$ hg co
3 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ hg manifest
a
b/a
l
$ hg files -vr .
2 a
2 x b/a (glob)
1 l l
$ hg files -r . -X b
a
l
$ hg manifest -v
644 a
755 * b/a
644 @ l
$ hg manifest --debug
b789fdd96dc2f3bd229c1dd8eedf0fc60e2b68e3 644 a
b789fdd96dc2f3bd229c1dd8eedf0fc60e2b68e3 755 * b/a
047b75c6d7a3ef6a2243bd0e99f94f6ea6683597 644 @ l
$ hg manifest -r 0
a
l
$ hg manifest -r 1
a
b/a
l
$ hg manifest -r tip
a
b/a
l
$ hg manifest tip
a
b/a
l
$ hg manifest --all
a
b/a
l
The next two calls are expected to abort:
$ hg manifest -r 2
abort: unknown revision '2'!
[255]
$ hg manifest -r tip tip
abort: please specify just one revision
[255]