tests/test-ui-color.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
from mercurial import (
    dispatch,
    ui as uimod,
)
from mercurial.utils import stringutil

# ensure errors aren't buffered
testui = uimod.ui()
testui.pushbuffer()
testui.writenoi18n(b'buffered\n')
testui.warnnoi18n(b'warning\n')
testui.write_err(b'error\n')
print(stringutil.pprint(testui.popbuffer(), bprefix=True).decode('ascii'))

# test dispatch.dispatch with the same ui object
hgrc = open(os.environ["HGRCPATH"], 'wb')
hgrc.write(b'[extensions]\n')
hgrc.write(b'color=\n')
hgrc.close()

ui_ = uimod.ui.load()
ui_.setconfig(b'ui', b'formatted', b'True')

# we're not interested in the output, so write that to devnull
ui_.fout = open(os.devnull, 'wb')

# call some arbitrary command just so we go through
# color's wrapped _runcommand twice.
def runcmd():
    dispatch.dispatch(dispatch.request([b'version', b'-q'], ui_))


runcmd()
print("colored? %s" % (ui_._colormode is not None))
runcmd()
print("colored? %s" % (ui_._colormode is not None))