rebase: add boolean config item rebase.store-source
This allows to use rebase without recording a rebase_source extra
field. This is useful for example to build a mirror converted from
another SCM (such as svn) by converting only new revisions, and
then incrementally add them to the destination by pulling from the
newly converted (unrelated) repo and rebasing the new revisions
onto the last old already stored changeset. Without this patch the
rebased changesets would always receive some rebase_source that
would depend on the particular history of the conversion process,
instead of only depending on the original source revisions.
This is used to implement a hg mirror repo of SvarDOS (a partially
nonfree but completely redistributable DOS distribution) in the
scripts at https://hg.pushbx.org/ecm/svardos.scr/
In particular, cre.sh creates an svn mirror, upd.sh recreates an
entire hg repo from the svn mirror (which takes too long to do in a
regular job), and akt.sh uses hg convert with the config item
convert.svn.startrev to incrementally convert only the two most
recent revisions already found in the mirror destination plus any
possible new revisions. If any are found, the temporary repo's
changesets are pulled into the destination (as changesets from an
unrelated repository). Then the changesets corresponding to the new
revisions are rebased onto the prior final changeset. (Finally, the
two remaining duplicates of the prior head and its parent are
stripped from the destination repository.)
Without this patch, the particular rebase_source extra field would
depend on the order and times at which akt.sh was used, instead of
only depending on the source repository. In other words, whatever
sequence of upd.sh and akt.sh is used at whatever times, it is
desired that the final output repositories always match each other
exactly.
# A B
#
# 3 4 3
# |\/| |\
# |/\| | \
# 1 2 1 2
# \ / \ /
# 0 0
#
# if the result of the merge of 1 and 2
# is the same in 3 and 4, no new manifest
# will be created and the manifest group
# will be empty during the pull
#
# (plus we test a failure where outgoing
# wrongly reported the number of csets)
$ hg init a
$ cd a
$ touch init
$ hg ci -A -m 0
adding init
$ touch x y
$ hg ci -A -m 1
adding x
adding y
$ hg update 0
0 files updated, 0 files merged, 2 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ touch x y
$ hg ci -A -m 2
adding x
adding y
created new head
$ hg merge 1
0 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
(branch merge, don't forget to commit)
$ hg ci -A -m m1
$ hg update -C 1
0 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ hg merge 2
0 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
(branch merge, don't forget to commit)
$ hg ci -A -m m2
created new head
$ cd ..
$ hg clone -r 3 a b
adding changesets
adding manifests
adding file changes
added 4 changesets with 3 changes to 3 files
new changesets 5fcb73622933:d15a0c284984
updating to branch default
3 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ hg clone -r 4 a c
adding changesets
adding manifests
adding file changes
added 4 changesets with 3 changes to 3 files
new changesets 5fcb73622933:1ec3c74fc0e0
updating to branch default
3 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ hg -R a outgoing b
comparing with b
searching for changes
changeset: 4:1ec3c74fc0e0
tag: tip
parent: 1:79f9e10cd04e
parent: 2:8e1bb01c1a24
user: test
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
summary: m2
$ hg -R a outgoing c
comparing with c
searching for changes
changeset: 3:d15a0c284984
parent: 2:8e1bb01c1a24
parent: 1:79f9e10cd04e
user: test
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
summary: m1
$ hg -R b outgoing c
comparing with c
searching for changes
changeset: 3:d15a0c284984
tag: tip
parent: 2:8e1bb01c1a24
parent: 1:79f9e10cd04e
user: test
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
summary: m1
$ hg -R c outgoing b
comparing with b
searching for changes
changeset: 3:1ec3c74fc0e0
tag: tip
parent: 1:79f9e10cd04e
parent: 2:8e1bb01c1a24
user: test
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
summary: m2
$ hg -R b pull a
pulling from a
searching for changes
adding changesets
adding manifests
adding file changes
added 1 changesets with 0 changes to 0 files (+1 heads)
new changesets 1ec3c74fc0e0
(run 'hg heads' to see heads, 'hg merge' to merge)
$ hg -R c pull a
pulling from a
searching for changes
adding changesets
adding manifests
adding file changes
added 1 changesets with 0 changes to 0 files (+1 heads)
new changesets d15a0c284984
(run 'hg heads' to see heads, 'hg merge' to merge)