filemerge: add support for partial conflict resolution by external tool
A common class of merge conflicts is in imports/#includes/etc. It's
relatively easy to write a tool that can resolve these conflicts,
perhaps by naively just unioning the statements and leaving any
cleanup to other tools to do later [1]. Such specialized tools cannot
generally resolve all conflicts in a file, of course. Let's therefore
call them "partial merge tools". Note that the internal simplemerge
algorithm is such a partial merge tool - one that only resolves
trivial "conflicts" where one side is unchanged or both sides change
in the same way.
One can also imagine having smarter language-aware partial tools that
merge the AST. It may be useful for such tools to interactively let
the user resolve any conflicts it can't resolve itself. However,
having the option of implementing it as a partial merge tool means
that the developer doesn't *need* to create a UI for it. Instead, the
user can resolve any remaining conflicts with their regular merge tool
(e.g. `:merge3` or `meld).
We don't currently have a way to let the user define such partial
merge tools. That's what this patch addresses. It lets the user
configure partial merge tools to run. Each tool can be configured to
run only on files matching certain patterns (e.g. "*.py"). The tool
takes three inputs (local, base, other) and resolves conflicts by
updating these in place. For example, let's say the inputs are these:
base:
```
import sys
def main():
print('Hello')
```
local:
```
import os
import sys
def main():
print('Hi')
```
other:
```
import re
import sys
def main():
print('Howdy')
```
A partial merge tool could now resolve the conflicting imports by
replacing the import statements in *all* files by the following
snippet, while leaving the remainder of the files unchanged.
```
import os
import re
import sys
```
As a result, simplemerge and any regular merge tool that runs after
the partial merge tool(s) will consider the imports to be
non-conflicting and will only present the conflict in `main()` to the
user.
Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D12356
$ echo "[extensions]" >> $HGRCPATH
$ echo "mq=" >> $HGRCPATH
$ hg init foo
$ cd foo
$ echo a > a
$ hg ci -qAm a
Default queue:
$ hg qqueue
patches (active)
$ echo b > a
$ hg qnew -fgDU somestuff
Applied patches in default queue:
$ hg qap
somestuff
Try to change patch (create succeeds, switch fails):
$ hg qqueue foo --create
abort: new queue created, but cannot make active as patches are applied
[255]
$ hg qqueue
foo
patches (active)
Empty default queue:
$ hg qpop
popping somestuff
patch queue now empty
Switch queue:
$ hg qqueue foo
$ hg qqueue
foo (active)
patches
List queues, quiet:
$ hg qqueue --quiet
foo
patches
Fail creating queue with already existing name:
$ hg qqueue --create foo
abort: queue "foo" already exists
[255]
$ hg qqueue
foo (active)
patches
Create new queue for rename:
$ hg qqueue --create bar
$ hg qqueue
bar (active)
foo
patches
Rename queue, same name:
$ hg qqueue --rename bar
abort: can't rename "bar" to its current name
[255]
Rename queue to existing:
$ hg qqueue --rename foo
abort: queue "foo" already exists
[255]
Rename queue:
$ hg qqueue --rename buz
$ hg qqueue
buz (active)
foo
patches
Switch back to previous queue:
$ hg qqueue foo
$ hg qqueue --delete buz
$ hg qqueue
foo (active)
patches
Create queue for purge:
$ hg qqueue --create purge-me
$ hg qqueue
foo
patches
purge-me (active)
Create patch for purge:
$ hg qnew patch-purge-me
$ ls -1d .hg/patches-purge-me 2>/dev/null || true
.hg/patches-purge-me
$ hg qpop -a
popping patch-purge-me
patch queue now empty
Purge queue:
$ hg qqueue foo
$ hg qqueue --purge purge-me
$ hg qqueue
foo (active)
patches
$ ls -1d .hg/patches-purge-me 2>/dev/null || true
Unapplied patches:
$ hg qun
$ echo c > a
$ hg qnew -fgDU otherstuff
Fail switching back:
$ hg qqueue patches
abort: new queue created, but cannot make active as patches are applied
[255]
Fail deleting current:
$ hg qqueue foo --delete
abort: cannot delete currently active queue
[255]
Switch back and delete foo:
$ hg qpop -a
popping otherstuff
patch queue now empty
$ hg qqueue patches
$ hg qqueue foo --delete
$ hg qqueue
patches (active)
Tricky cases:
$ hg qqueue store --create
$ hg qnew journal
$ hg qqueue
patches
store (active)
$ hg qpop -a
popping journal
patch queue now empty
$ hg qqueue patches
$ hg qun
somestuff
Invalid names:
$ hg qqueue test/../../bar --create
abort: invalid queue name, may not contain the characters ":\/."
[255]
$ hg qqueue . --create
abort: invalid queue name, may not contain the characters ":\/."
[255]
$ cd ..