annotate mercurial/stack.py @ 45059:79f6f9fa18c1

documentation: add some internals documentation about bid merge

This is an important algorithm that was only documented on the wiki so far.

Some update to the algorithm (and associated doc) is to expected in the future
since the bid merge algorithm is bug-ridden when it comes to file deletion comes
to play.

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D8711

# stack.py - Mercurial functions for stack definition
#
#  Copyright Matt Mackall <[e-mail]> and other
#
# This software may be used and distributed according to the terms of the
# GNU General Public License version 2 or any later version.

from __future__ import absolute_import


def getstack(repo, rev=None):
    """return a sorted smartrev of the stack containing either rev if it is
    not None or the current working directory parent.

    The stack will always contain all drafts changesets which are ancestors to
    the revision and are not merges.
    """
    if rev is None:
        rev = b'.'

    revspec = b'only(%s) and not public() and not ::merge()'
    revisions = repo.revs(revspec, rev)
    revisions.sort()
    return revisions