context: introduce merge.preferancestor for controlling which ancestor to pick
Multiple revisions can be specified in merge.preferancestor, separated by
whitespace. First match wins.
This makes it possible to overrule the default of picking the common ancestor
with the lowest hash value among the "best" (introduced in 3605d4e7e618).
This can for instance help with some merges where the 'wrong' ancestor is used.
There will thus be some overlap between this and the problems that can be
solved with a future 'consensus merge'.
Mercurial will show a note like
note: using 40663881a6dd as ancestor of 3b08d01b0ab5 and adfe50279922
alternatively, use --config merge.preferancestor=0f6b37dbe527
when the option is available, listing all the alternative ancestors.
$ cat > echo.py <<EOF
> #!/usr/bin/env python
> import os, sys
> try:
> import msvcrt
> msvcrt.setmode(sys.stdout.fileno(), os.O_BINARY)
> msvcrt.setmode(sys.stderr.fileno(), os.O_BINARY)
> except ImportError:
> pass
>
> for k in ('HG_FILE', 'HG_MY_ISLINK', 'HG_OTHER_ISLINK', 'HG_BASE_ISLINK'):
> print k, os.environ[k]
> EOF
Create 2 heads containing the same file, once as
a file, once as a link. Bundle was generated with:
# hg init t
# cd t
# echo a > a
# hg ci -qAm t0 -d '0 0'
# echo l > l
# hg ci -qAm t1 -d '1 0'
# hg up -C 0
# ln -s a l
# hg ci -qAm t2 -d '2 0'
# echo l2 > l2
# hg ci -qAm t3 -d '3 0'
$ hg init t
$ cd t
$ hg -q pull "$TESTDIR/bundles/test-merge-symlinks.hg"
$ hg up -C 3
3 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
Merge them and display *_ISLINK vars
merge heads
$ hg merge --tool="python ../echo.py"
merging l
HG_FILE l
HG_MY_ISLINK 1
HG_OTHER_ISLINK 0
HG_BASE_ISLINK 0
0 files updated, 1 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
(branch merge, don't forget to commit)
Test working directory symlink bit calculation wrt copies,
especially on non-supporting systems.
merge working directory
$ hg up -C 2
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 1 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ hg copy l l2
$ HGMERGE="python ../echo.py" hg up 3
merging l2
HG_FILE l2
HG_MY_ISLINK 1
HG_OTHER_ISLINK 0
HG_BASE_ISLINK 0
0 files updated, 1 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ cd ..