tests/test-dispatch.py

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

from __future__ import absolute_import, print_function
import os
import sys
from mercurial import dispatch


def printb(data, end=b'\n'):
    out = getattr(sys.stdout, 'buffer', sys.stdout)
    out.write(data + end)
    out.flush()


def testdispatch(cmd):
    """Simple wrapper around dispatch.dispatch()

    Prints command and result value, but does not handle quoting.
    """
    printb(b"running: %s" % (cmd,))
    req = dispatch.request(cmd.split())
    result = dispatch.dispatch(req)
    printb(b"result: %r" % (result,))


testdispatch(b"init test1")
os.chdir('test1')

# create file 'foo', add and commit
f = open('foo', 'wb')
f.write(b'foo\n')
f.close()
testdispatch(b"add foo")
testdispatch(b"commit -m commit1 -d 2000-01-01 foo")

# append to file 'foo' and commit
f = open('foo', 'ab')
f.write(b'bar\n')
f.close()
testdispatch(b"commit -m commit2 -d 2000-01-02 foo")

# check 88803a69b24 (fancyopts modified command table)
testdispatch(b"log -r 0")
testdispatch(b"log -r tip")