view tests/test-empty-file.t @ 26228:0fd20a71abdb

extdiff: add a --patch argument for diffing changeset deltas

One of the things I missed the most when transitioning from versioned MQ to
evolve was the loss of being able to check that rebase conflicts were properly
resolved by:

  $ hg ci --mq -m "before"
  $ hg rebase -s qbase -d tip
  $ hg bcompare --mq

The old csets stay in the tree with evolve, but a straight diff includes all of
the other changes that were pulled in, obscuring the code that was rebased.
Diffing deltas can be confusing, but unless radical changes were made during the
resolve, it is very clear when individual hunks are added, dropped or modified.
Unlike the MQ technique, this can only compare a single pair of csets/patches at
a time.  Like the MQ method, this also highlights changes in the commit comment
and other metadata.

I originally tried monkey patching from the evolve extension, but that is too
complicated given that it depends on the order the two different extensions are
loaded.  This functionality is also useful when comparing grafts however, so
implementing it in the core is more than just convenience.

The --change argument doesn't make much sense for this, but it isn't harmful so
I didn't bother blocking it.  The -I/-X options are ignored because of a
limitation of cmdutil.export().  We'll fix that next.

  $ hg init a
  $ cd a
  $ touch empty1
  $ hg add empty1
  $ hg commit -m 'add empty1'

  $ touch empty2
  $ hg add empty2
  $ hg commit -m 'add empty2'

  $ hg up -C 0
  0 files updated, 0 files merged, 1 files removed, 0 files unresolved
  $ touch empty3
  $ hg add empty3
  $ hg commit -m 'add empty3'
  created new head

  $ hg heads
  changeset:   2:a1cb177e0d44
  tag:         tip
  parent:      0:1e1d9c4e5b64
  user:        test
  date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
  summary:     add empty3
  
  changeset:   1:097d2b0e17f6
  user:        test
  date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
  summary:     add empty2
  

  $ hg merge 1
  1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
  (branch merge, don't forget to commit)

Before changeset 05257fd28591, we didn't notice the
empty file that came from rev 1:

  $ hg status
  M empty2
  $ hg commit -m merge
  $ hg manifest --debug tip
  b80de5d138758541c5f05265ad144ab9fa86d1db 644   empty1
  b80de5d138758541c5f05265ad144ab9fa86d1db 644   empty2
  b80de5d138758541c5f05265ad144ab9fa86d1db 644   empty3

  $ cd ..