Make it possible to disable filtering for a pattern.
Rationale: Apparently there were no way to disable for example win32text extension locally.
RFC: Can it already be done another way?
import os, sys
from mercurial import hg, ui
TESTDIR = os.environ["TESTDIR"]
# only makes sense to test on os which supports symlinks
if not hasattr(os, "symlink"):
sys.exit(80) # SKIPPED_STATUS defined in run-tests.py
# this is what symlink would do on a non-symlink file system
def symlink_failure(src, dst):
raise OSError, (1, "Operation not permitted")
os.symlink = symlink_failure
# now try cloning a repo which contains symlinks
u = ui.ui()
hg.clone(u, os.path.join(TESTDIR, 'test-no-symlinks.hg'), 'test1')