hgext/schemes.py

patch: deprecate ui.patch / external patcher feature

Why?
- Mercurial internal patcher works correctly for regular patches and git
  patches, is much faster at least on Windows and is more extensible.
- In theory, the external patcher can be used to handle exotic patch formats. I
  do not know any and have not heard about any such use in years.
- Most patch programs cannot handle git format patches, which makes the API
  caller to decide either to ignore ui.patch by calling patch.internalpatch()
  directly, or take the risk of random failures with valid inputs.
- One thing a patch program could do Mercurial patcher cannot is applying with
  --reverse. Apparently several shelve like extensions try to use that,
  including passing the "reverse" option to Mercurial patcher, which has been
  removed mid-2009. I never heard anybody complain about that, and would prefer
  reimplementing it anyway.

And from the technical perspective:
- The external patcher makes everything harder to maintain and implement. EOL
  normalization is not implemented, and I would bet file renames, if supported
  by the patcher, are not correctly recorded in the dirstate.
- No tests.

How?
- Remove related documentation
- Clearly mark patch.externalpatch() as private
- Remove the debuginstall check. This deprecation request was actually
  triggered by this last point. debuginstall is the only piece of code patching
  without a repository. When migrating to an integrated patch() + updatedir()
  call, this was really a showstopper, all workarounds were either ugly or
  uselessly complicated to implement. If we do not support external patcher
  anymore, the debuginstall check is not useful anymore.
- Remove patch.externalpatch() after 1.9 release.

# Copyright 2009, Alexander Solovyov <[e-mail]>
#
# This software may be used and distributed according to the terms of the
# GNU General Public License version 2 or any later version.

"""extend schemes with shortcuts to repository swarms

This extension allows you to specify shortcuts for parent URLs with a
lot of repositories to act like a scheme, for example::

  [schemes]
  py = http://code.python.org/hg/

After that you can use it like::

  hg clone py://trunk/

Additionally there is support for some more complex schemas, for
example used by Google Code::

  [schemes]
  gcode = http://{1}.googlecode.com/hg/

The syntax is taken from Mercurial templates, and you have unlimited
number of variables, starting with ``{1}`` and continuing with
``{2}``, ``{3}`` and so on. This variables will receive parts of URL
supplied, split by ``/``. Anything not specified as ``{part}`` will be
just appended to an URL.

For convenience, the extension adds these schemes by default::

  [schemes]
  py = http://hg.python.org/
  bb = https://bitbucket.org/
  bb+ssh = ssh://[e-mail]/
  gcode = https://{1}.googlecode.com/hg/
  kiln = https://{1}.kilnhg.com/Repo/

You can override a predefined scheme by defining a new scheme with the
same name.
"""

import re
from mercurial import hg, templater


class ShortRepository(object):
    def __init__(self, url, scheme, templater):
        self.scheme = scheme
        self.templater = templater
        self.url = url
        try:
            self.parts = max(map(int, re.findall(r'\{(\d+)\}', self.url)))
        except ValueError:
            self.parts = 0

    def __repr__(self):
        return '<ShortRepository: %s>' % self.scheme

    def instance(self, ui, url, create):
        url = url.split('://', 1)[1]
        parts = url.split('/', self.parts)
        if len(parts) > self.parts:
            tail = parts[-1]
            parts = parts[:-1]
        else:
            tail = ''
        context = dict((str(i + 1), v) for i, v in enumerate(parts))
        url = ''.join(self.templater.process(self.url, context)) + tail
        return hg._lookup(url).instance(ui, url, create)

schemes = {
    'py': 'http://hg.python.org/',
    'bb': 'https://bitbucket.org/',
    'bb+ssh': 'ssh://[e-mail]/',
    'gcode': 'https://{1}.googlecode.com/hg/',
    'kiln': 'https://{1}.kilnhg.com/Repo/'
    }

def extsetup(ui):
    schemes.update(dict(ui.configitems('schemes')))
    t = templater.engine(lambda x: x)
    for scheme, url in schemes.items():
        hg.schemes[scheme] = ShortRepository(url, scheme, t)