narrow: fix flaky behavior described in issue6150
This has been plaguing the CI for a good while, and it doesn't appear to have
an easy fix proposed yet. The solution in this change is to always do an
unambiguous (but expensive) lookup in case of comparison. This should always
be correct, albeit suboptimal.
Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D10034
$ hg init a
$ cd a
$ hg diff inexistent1 inexistent2
inexistent1: * (glob)
inexistent2: * (glob)
$ echo bar > foo
$ hg add foo
$ hg ci -m 'add foo'
$ echo foobar > foo
$ hg ci -m 'change foo'
$ hg --quiet diff -r 0 -r 1
diff -r a99fb63adac3 -r 9b8568d3af2f foo
--- a/foo Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/foo Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
@@ -1,1 +1,1 @@
-bar
+foobar
$ hg diff -r 0 -r 1
diff -r a99fb63adac3 -r 9b8568d3af2f foo
--- a/foo Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/foo Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
@@ -1,1 +1,1 @@
-bar
+foobar
$ hg --verbose diff -r 0 -r 1
diff -r a99fb63adac3 -r 9b8568d3af2f foo
--- a/foo Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/foo Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
@@ -1,1 +1,1 @@
-bar
+foobar
$ hg --debug diff -r 0 -r 1
diff -r a99fb63adac3f31816a22f665bc3b7a7655b30f4 -r 9b8568d3af2f1749445eef03aede868a6f39f210 foo
--- a/foo Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/foo Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
@@ -1,1 +1,1 @@
-bar
+foobar
$ cd ..