update: allow update to existing branches with invalid names (issue3710)
Starting with 361ab1e2086f, users are no longer able to update a
working copy to a branch named with a "bad" character (such as ':').
Prior to v2.4, it was possible to create branch names using "bad"
characters, so this breaks backwards compatibility.
Mercurial must allow users to update to existing branches with bad
names. However, it should continue to prevent the creation of new
branches with bad names.
A test was added to confirm that 'hg update' works as expected. The
test uses a bundled repo that was created with an earlier version of
Mercurial.
$ hg init
$ echo "added file1" > file1
$ echo "another line of text" >> file1
$ echo "added file2" > file2
$ hg add file1 file2
$ hg commit -m "added file1 and file2"
$ echo "changed file1" >> file1
$ hg commit -m "changed file1"
$ hg -q log
1:dfab7f3c2efb
0:c3fa057dd86f
$ hg id
dfab7f3c2efb tip
$ hg update -C 0
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ hg id
c3fa057dd86f
$ echo "changed file1" >> file1
$ hg id
c3fa057dd86f+
$ hg revert --no-backup --all
reverting file1
$ hg diff
$ hg status
$ hg id
c3fa057dd86f
$ hg update
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ hg diff
$ hg status
$ hg id
dfab7f3c2efb tip
$ hg update -C 0
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ echo "changed file1 different" >> file1
$ hg update
merging file1
warning: conflicts during merge.
merging file1 incomplete! (edit conflicts, then use 'hg resolve --mark')
0 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 1 files unresolved
use 'hg resolve' to retry unresolved file merges
[1]
$ hg diff --nodates
diff -r dfab7f3c2efb file1
--- a/file1
+++ b/file1
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
added file1
another line of text
+<<<<<<< local
+changed file1 different
+=======
changed file1
+>>>>>>> other
$ hg status
M file1
? file1.orig
$ hg id
dfab7f3c2efb+ tip
$ hg revert --no-backup --all
reverting file1
$ hg diff
$ hg status
? file1.orig
$ hg id
dfab7f3c2efb tip
$ hg revert -r tip --no-backup --all
$ hg diff
$ hg status
? file1.orig
$ hg id
dfab7f3c2efb tip
$ hg update -C
0 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ hg diff
$ hg status
? file1.orig
$ hg id
dfab7f3c2efb tip