annotate tests/test-issue1502.t @ 45121:b6269741ed42

config: add option to control creation of empty successors during rewrite

The default for many history-rewriting commands (e.g. rebase and absorb) is
that changesets which would become empty are not created in the target branch.
This makes sense if the source branch consists of small fix-up changes. For
more advanced workflows that make heavy use of history-editing to create
curated patch series, dropping empty changesets is not as important or even
undesirable.

Some users want to keep the meta-history, e.g. to make finding comments in a
code review tool easier or to avoid that divergent bookmarks are created. For
that, obsmarkers from the (to-be) empty changeset to the changeset(s) that
already made the changes should be added. If a to-be empty changeset is pruned
without a successor, adding the obsmarkers is hard because the changeset has to
be found within the hidden part of the history.

If rebasing in TortoiseHg, it’s easy to miss the fact that the to-be empty
changeset was pruned. An empty changeset will function as a reminder that
obsmarkers should be added.

Martin von Zweigbergk mentioned another advantage. Stripping the successor will
de-obsolete the predecessor. If no (empty) successor is created, this won’t be
possible.

In the future, we may want to consider other behaviors, like e.g. creating the
empty successor, but pruning it right away. Therefore this configuration
accepts 'skip' and 'keep' instead of being a boolean configuration.

https://bz.mercurial-scm.org/1502

Initialize repository

  $ hg init foo
  $ touch foo/a && hg -R foo commit -A -m "added a"
  adding a

  $ hg clone foo foo1
  updating to branch default
  1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved

  $ echo "bar" > foo1/a && hg -R foo1 commit -m "edit a in foo1"
  $ echo "hi" > foo/a && hg -R foo commit -m "edited a foo"
  $ hg -R foo1 pull
  pulling from $TESTTMP/foo
  searching for changes
  adding changesets
  adding manifests
  adding file changes
  added 1 changesets with 1 changes to 1 files (+1 heads)
  new changesets 273d008d6e8e
  (run 'hg heads' to see heads, 'hg merge' to merge)

  $ hg -R foo1 book branchy
  $ hg -R foo1 book
   * branchy                   1:e3e522925eff

Pull. Bookmark should not jump to new head.

  $ echo "there" >> foo/a && hg -R foo commit -m "edited a again"
  $ hg -R foo1 pull
  pulling from $TESTTMP/foo
  searching for changes
  adding changesets
  adding manifests
  adding file changes
  added 1 changesets with 1 changes to 1 files
  new changesets 84a798d48b17
  (run 'hg update' to get a working copy)

  $ hg -R foo1 book
   * branchy                   1:e3e522925eff