annotate tests/test-issue1306.t @ 44985:1ca0047fd7e1

absorb: preserve changesets which were already empty

Most commands in Mercurial (commit, rebase, absorb itself) don’t create empty
changesets or drop them if they become empty. If there’s a changeset that’s
empty, it must be a deliberate choice of the user. At least it shouldn’t be
absorb’s responsibility to prune them. The fact that changesets that became
empty during absorb are pruned, is unaffected by this.

This case was found while writing patches which make it possible to configure
absorb and rebase to not drop empty changesets. Even without having such config
set, I think it’s valuable to preserve changesets which were already empty.

https://bz.mercurial-scm.org/1306

Initialize remote repo with branches:

  $ hg init remote
  $ cd remote

  $ echo a > a
  $ hg ci -Ama
  adding a

  $ hg branch br
  marked working directory as branch br
  (branches are permanent and global, did you want a bookmark?)
  $ hg ci -Amb

  $ echo c > c
  $ hg ci -Amc
  adding c

  $ hg log
  changeset:   2:ae3d9c30ec50
  branch:      br
  tag:         tip
  user:        test
  date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
  summary:     c
  
  changeset:   1:3f7f930ca414
  branch:      br
  user:        test
  date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
  summary:     b
  
  changeset:   0:cb9a9f314b8b
  user:        test
  date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
  summary:     a
  

  $ cd ..

Try cloning -r branch:

  $ hg clone -rbr remote local1
  adding changesets
  adding manifests
  adding file changes
  added 3 changesets with 2 changes to 2 files
  new changesets cb9a9f314b8b:ae3d9c30ec50
  updating to branch br
  2 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved

  $ hg -R local1 parents
  changeset:   2:ae3d9c30ec50
  branch:      br
  tag:         tip
  user:        test
  date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
  summary:     c
  

Try cloning -rother clone#branch:

  $ hg clone -r0 remote#br local2
  adding changesets
  adding manifests
  adding file changes
  added 3 changesets with 2 changes to 2 files
  new changesets cb9a9f314b8b:ae3d9c30ec50
  updating to branch default
  1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved

  $ hg -R local2 parents
  changeset:   0:cb9a9f314b8b
  user:        test
  date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
  summary:     a
  

Try cloning -r1 clone#branch:

  $ hg clone -r1 remote#br local3
  adding changesets
  adding manifests
  adding file changes
  added 3 changesets with 2 changes to 2 files
  new changesets cb9a9f314b8b:ae3d9c30ec50
  updating to branch br
  1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved

  $ hg -R local3 parents
  changeset:   1:3f7f930ca414
  branch:      br
  user:        test
  date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
  summary:     b