mercurial/help/pager.txt

obsolescence: add test case B-3 for obsolescence markers exchange

About 3 years ago, in August 2014, the logic to select what markers to select on
push was ported from the evolve extension to Mercurial core. However, for some
unclear reasons, the tests for that logic were not ported alongside.
I realised it a couple of weeks ago while working on another push related issue.
I've made a clean up pass on the tests and they are now ready to integrate the
core test suite. This series of changesets do not change any logic. I just adds
test for logic that has been around for about 10 versions of Mercurial.

They are a patch for each test case. It makes it easier to review and postpone
one with documentation issues without rejecting the wholes series.

This patch introduce case B3: Pruned changeset on non-pushed part of the history

Each test case comes it in own test file. It help parallelism and does not
introduce a significant overhead from having a single unified giant test file.
Here are timing  to support this claim.

# Multiple test files version:
# run-tests.py --local -j 1 test-exchange-*.t
53.40s user 6.82s system 85% cpu 1:10.76 total
52.79s user 6.97s system 85% cpu 1:09.97 total
52.94s user 6.82s system 85% cpu 1:09.69 total

# Single test file version:
# run-tests.py --local -j 1 test-exchange-obsmarkers.t
52.97s user 6.85s system 85% cpu 1:10.10 total
52.64s user 6.79s system 85% cpu 1:09.63 total
53.70s user 7.00s system 85% cpu 1:11.17 total

Some Mercurial commands produce a lot of output, and Mercurial will
attempt to use a pager to make those commands more pleasant.

To set the pager that should be used, set the application variable::

  [pager]
  pager = less -FRX

If no pager is set, the pager extensions uses the environment variable
$PAGER. If neither pager.pager, nor $PAGER is set, a default pager
will be used, typically `more`.

You can disable the pager for certain commands by adding them to the
pager.ignore list::

  [pager]
  ignore = version, help, update

To ignore global commands like :hg:`version` or :hg:`help`, you have
to specify them in your user configuration file.

To control whether the pager is used at all for an individual command,
you can use --pager=<value>::

  - use as needed: `auto`.
  - require the pager: `yes` or `on`.
  - suppress the pager: `no` or `off` (any unrecognized value
  will also work).

To globally turn off all attempts to use a pager, set::

  [pager]
  enable = false

which will prevent the pager from running.