hgext/purge.py

filemerge: add support for partial conflict resolution by external tool

A common class of merge conflicts is in imports/#includes/etc. It's
relatively easy to write a tool that can resolve these conflicts,
perhaps by naively just unioning the statements and leaving any
cleanup to other tools to do later [1]. Such specialized tools cannot
generally resolve all conflicts in a file, of course. Let's therefore
call them "partial merge tools". Note that the internal simplemerge
algorithm is such a partial merge tool - one that only resolves
trivial "conflicts" where one side is unchanged or both sides change
in the same way.

One can also imagine having smarter language-aware partial tools that
merge the AST. It may be useful for such tools to interactively let
the user resolve any conflicts it can't resolve itself. However,
having the option of implementing it as a partial merge tool means
that the developer doesn't *need* to create a UI for it. Instead, the
user can resolve any remaining conflicts with their regular merge tool
(e.g. `:merge3` or `meld).

We don't currently have a way to let the user define such partial
merge tools. That's what this patch addresses. It lets the user
configure partial merge tools to run. Each tool can be configured to
run only on files matching certain patterns (e.g. "*.py"). The tool
takes three inputs (local, base, other) and resolves conflicts by
updating these in place. For example, let's say the inputs are these:


base:
```
import sys

def main():
  print('Hello')
```

local:
```
import os
import sys

def main():
  print('Hi')
```

other:
```
import re
import sys

def main():
  print('Howdy')
```

A partial merge tool could now resolve the conflicting imports by
replacing the import statements in *all* files by the following
snippet, while leaving the remainder of the files unchanged.

```
import os
import re
import sys
```

As a result, simplemerge and any regular merge tool that runs after
the partial merge tool(s) will consider the imports to be
non-conflicting and will only present the conflict in `main()` to the
user.

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D12356

# Copyright (C) 2006 - Marco Barisione <[e-mail]>
#
# This is a small extension for Mercurial (https://mercurial-scm.org/)
# that removes files not known to mercurial
#
# This program was inspired by the "cvspurge" script contained in CVS
# utilities (http://www.red-bean.com/cvsutils/).
#
# For help on the usage of "hg purge" use:
#  hg help purge
#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
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#
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#
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'''command to delete untracked files from the working directory (DEPRECATED)

The functionality of this extension has been included in core Mercurial since
version 5.7. Please use :hg:`purge ...` instead. :hg:`purge --confirm` is now
the default, unless the extension is enabled for backward compatibility.
'''

# This empty extension looks pointless, but core mercurial checks if it's loaded
# to implement the slightly different behavior documented above.

# Note for extension authors: ONLY specify testedwith = 'ships-with-hg-core' for
# extensions which SHIP WITH MERCURIAL. Non-mainline extensions should
# be specifying the version(s) of Mercurial they are tested with, or
# leave the attribute unspecified.
testedwith = b'ships-with-hg-core'