discovery: fix docstring of `outgoing` class
Also, introduce a more correct name `ancestorsof` for what was named
`missingheads` before. For now, we just forward `ancestorsof` to `missingheads`
until all users are changed.
There were some mistakes in the old docstring / name:
* `missingheads` (new name: `ancestorsof`) contains the revs whose ancestors
are included in the outgoing operation. It may contain non-head revs and revs
which are already on the remote, so the name "missingheads" is wrong in two
ways.
* `missing` contains only ancestors of `missingheads`, so not *all nodes*
present in local but not in remote.
* `common` might not contain all common revs, e.g. not some that are not an
ancestor of `missingheads`.
It seems like the misleading name have fostered an actual bug (issue6372),
where `outgoing.missingheads` was used assuming that it contains the heads of
the missing changesets.
Do not strip innocent children. See https://bitbucket.org/facebook/hg-experimental/issues/6/hg-absorb-merges-diverged-commits
$ cat >> $HGRCPATH << EOF
> [extensions]
> absorb=
> drawdag=$TESTDIR/drawdag.py
> EOF
$ hg init
$ hg debugdrawdag << EOF
> E
> |
> D F
> |/
> C
> |
> B
> |
> A
> EOF
$ hg up E -q
$ echo 1 >> B
$ echo 2 >> D
$ hg absorb -a
warning: orphaned descendants detected, not stripping 112478962961, 26805aba1e60
saved backup bundle to * (glob)
2 of 2 chunk(s) applied
$ hg log -G -T '{desc}'
@ E
|
o D
|
o C
|
o B
|
| o F
| |
| o C
| |
| o B
|/
o A