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revset: define successors revset This revset returns all successors, including transit nodes and the source nodes (to be consistent with existing revsets like "ancestors"). To filter out transit nodes, use `successors(X)-obsolete()`. To filter out divergent case, use `successors(X)-divergent()-obsolete()`. The revset could be useful to define rebase destination, like: `max(successors(BASE)-divergent()-obsolete())`. The `max` is to deal with splits. There are other implementations where `successors` returns just one level of successors, and `allsuccessors` returns everything. I think `successors` returning all successors by default is more user friendly. We have seen cases in production where people use 1-level `successors` while they really want `allsuccessors`. So it seems better to just have one single revset returning all successors by default to avoid user errors. In the future we might want to add `depth` keyword argument to it and for other revsets like `ancestors` etc. Or even build some flexible indexing syntax [1] to satisfy people having the depth limit requirement. [1]: https://www.mercurial-scm.org/pipermail/mercurial-devel/2017-July/101140.html
author Jun Wu <quark@fb.com>
date Mon, 10 Jul 2017 10:56:40 -0700
parents 90d84e1e427a
children d0e8933d6dad
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