convert: keep branch switching merges with ancestors (issue3340)
When running convert with a filemap, merge parents which are ancestors
of other parents are ignored. This is hardly a problem when parents
belong to the same branch, but the result could be confusing when named
branches are involved. With:
-o-a1-a2-a3... <- A
\ \
b1-b2-b3...-m- <- B
If all b* revisions are discarded, it is useful to preserve 'm' even if
it is empty after filtering to record the branch switch.
This patch makes filemap preserve "ancestor parents" if there is no
"non-ancestor parent" on the same branch than the merge revision.
Remarks:
- I am not completely convinced by the reasons given above and those
detailed by Matt in this thread:
http://selenic.com/pipermail/mercurial-devel/2012-May/040627.html
The properties we try to preserve are not clearly defined. That said,
I know this patch already helped someone on IRC and the tests output
look reasonable.
- This is a new version of the original "convert: filemap must preserve
fast-forward merges" patch. It has exactly the same output for 2
parents merges, the additional complexity is here to handle more than
two parents.
Initial setup.
$ hg init repo
$ cd repo
$ touch thefile
$ hg ci -A -m 'Initial commit.'
adding thefile
Create a tag.
$ hg tag branchortag
Create a branch with the same name as the tag.
$ hg branch branchortag
marked working directory as branch branchortag
(branches are permanent and global, did you want a bookmark?)
$ hg ci -m 'Create a branch with the same name as a tag.'
This is what we have:
$ hg log
changeset: 2:10519b3f489a
branch: branchortag
tag: tip
user: test
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
summary: Create a branch with the same name as a tag.
changeset: 1:2635c45ca99b
user: test
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
summary: Added tag branchortag for changeset f57387372b5d
changeset: 0:f57387372b5d
tag: branchortag
user: test
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
summary: Initial commit.
Update to the tag:
$ hg up 'tag(branchortag)'
0 files updated, 0 files merged, 1 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ hg parents
changeset: 0:f57387372b5d
tag: branchortag
user: test
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
summary: Initial commit.
Updating to the branch:
$ hg up 'branch(branchortag)'
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ hg parents
changeset: 2:10519b3f489a
branch: branchortag
tag: tip
user: test
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
summary: Create a branch with the same name as a tag.
$ cd ..