tests/printenv.py

color: turn 'ui.color' into a boolean (auto or off)

Previously, 'ui.color=yes' meant "always show color", While
"ui.color=auto" meant "use color automatically when it appears
sensible".

This feels problematic to some people because if an administrator has
disabled color with "ui.color=off", and a user turn it back  on using
"color=on", it will get surprised (because it breaks their output when
redirected to a file.) This patch changes ui.color=true to only move the
default value of --color from "never" to "auto".

I'm not really in favor of this changes as I suspect the above case will
be pretty rare and I would rather keep the logic simpler. However, I'm
providing this patch to help the 4.2 release in the case were others
decide to make this changes.

Users that want to force colors without specifying --color on the
command line can use the 'ui.formatted' config knob, which had to be
enabled in a handful of tests for this patch.

Nice summary table (credit: Augie Fackler)

That is, before this patch:

+--------------------+--------------------+--------------------+
|                    | not a tty          | a tty              |
|                    | --color not set    | --color not set    |
|                    |                    |                    |
+--------------------+--------------------+--------------------+
| [ui]               |                    |                    |
| color (not set)    | no color           | no color           |
|                    |                    |                    |
+--------------------+--------------------+--------------------+
| [ui]               |                    |                    |
| color = auto       | no color           | color              |
|                    |                    |                    |
+--------------------+--------------------+--------------------+
| [ui]               |                    |                    |
| color = yes        | *color*            | color              |
|                    |                    |                    |
+--------------------+--------------------+--------------------+
| [ui]               |                    |                    |
| color = no         | no color           | no color           |
|                    |                    |                    |
+--------------------+--------------------+--------------------+
(if --color is specified, it always clobbers the setting in [ui])

and after this patch:

+--------------------+--------------------+--------------------+
|                    | not a tty          | a tty              |
|                    | --color not set    | --color not set    |
|                    |                    |                    |
+--------------------+--------------------+--------------------+
| [ui]               |                    |                    |
| color (not set)    | no color           | no color           |
|                    |                    |                    |
+--------------------+--------------------+--------------------+
| [ui]               |                    |                    |
| color = auto       | no color           | color              |
|                    |                    |                    |
+--------------------+--------------------+--------------------+
| [ui]               |                    |                    |
| color = yes        | *no color*         | color              |
|                    |                    |                    |
+--------------------+--------------------+--------------------+
| [ui]               |                    |                    |
| color = no         | no color           | no color           |
|                    |                    |                    |
+--------------------+--------------------+--------------------+
(if --color is specified, it always clobbers the setting in [ui])

#!/usr/bin/env python
#
# simple script to be used in hooks
#
# put something like this in the repo .hg/hgrc:
#
#     [hooks]
#     changegroup = python "$TESTDIR/printenv.py" <hookname> [exit] [output]
#
#   - <hookname> is a mandatory argument (e.g. "changegroup")
#   - [exit] is the exit code of the hook (default: 0)
#   - [output] is the name of the output file (default: use sys.stdout)
#              the file will be opened in append mode.
#
from __future__ import absolute_import
import os
import sys

try:
    import msvcrt
    msvcrt.setmode(sys.stdin.fileno(), os.O_BINARY)
    msvcrt.setmode(sys.stdout.fileno(), os.O_BINARY)
    msvcrt.setmode(sys.stderr.fileno(), os.O_BINARY)
except ImportError:
    pass

exitcode = 0
out = sys.stdout

name = sys.argv[1]
if len(sys.argv) > 2:
    exitcode = int(sys.argv[2])
    if len(sys.argv) > 3:
        out = open(sys.argv[3], "ab")

# variables with empty values may not exist on all platforms, filter
# them now for portability sake.
env = [(k, v) for k, v in os.environ.iteritems()
       if k.startswith("HG_") and v]
env.sort()

out.write("%s hook: " % name)
if os.name == 'nt':
    filter = lambda x: x.replace('\\', '/')
else:
    filter = lambda x: x
vars = ["%s=%s" % (k, filter(v)) for k, v in env]
out.write(" ".join(vars))
out.write("\n")
out.close()

sys.exit(exitcode)