annotate tests/helpers-testrepo.sh @ 35703:9a50ffd15b25

filemerge: only write in-memory backup during premerge

This wasn't broken, but should mirror the non-in memory case to save an extra
write.

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D1807

# In most cases, the mercurial repository can be read by the bundled hg, but
# that isn't always true because third-party extensions may change the store
# format, for example. In which case, the system hg installation is used.
#
# We want to use the hg version being tested when interacting with the test
# repository, and the system hg when interacting with the mercurial source code
# repository.
#
# The mercurial source repository was typically orignally cloned with the
# system mercurial installation, and may require extensions or settings from
# the system installation.
syshg () {
    (
        syshgenv
        exec hg "$@"
    )
}

# Revert the environment so that running "hg" runs the system hg
# rather than the test hg installation.
syshgenv () {
    . "$HGTEST_RESTOREENV"
    HGPLAIN=1
    export HGPLAIN
}

# The test-repo is a live hg repository which may have evolution markers
# created, e.g. when a ~/.hgrc enabled evolution.
#
# Tests may be run using a custom HGRCPATH, which do not enable evolution
# markers by default.
#
# If test-repo includes evolution markers, and we do not enable evolution
# markers, hg will occasionally complain when it notices them, which disrupts
# tests resulting in sporadic failures.
#
# Since we aren't performing any write operations on the test-repo, there's
# no harm in telling hg that we support evolution markers, which is what the
# following lines for the hgrc file do:
cat >> "$HGRCPATH" << EOF
[experimental]
evolution = createmarkers
EOF

# Use the system hg command if the bundled hg can't read the repository with
# no warning nor error.
if [ -n "`hg id -R "$TESTDIR/.." 2>&1 >/dev/null`" ]; then
    alias testrepohg=syshg
    alias testrepohgenv=syshgenv
else
    alias testrepohg=hg
    alias testrepohgenv=:
fi