view tests/helpers-testrepo.sh @ 50195:11e6eee4b063

transaction: use the standard transaction mechanism to backup branch

Branch is a bit special :
- It currently does not collaborate with the transaction (or any scoping) for
  writing (this is bad)
- It can change without the lock being taken (it is protected by `wlock`)

So we rely on the same mechanism as for the backup of the other dirstate file:
- we only do a backup if we hold the wlock
- we force a backup though the transaction


Since "branch" write does not collaborate with the transaction, we cannot back
it up "at the last minute" as we do for the dirstate. We have to back it up
"upfront". Since we have a backup, the transaction is no longer doing its
"quick_abort" and get noisy. Which is quite annoying. To work around this, and
to avoid jumping in yet-another-rabbit-hole of "getting branch written
properly", I am doing horrible things to the transaction in the meantime.
We should be able to get this code go away during the next cycle.

In the meantime, I prefer to take this small stop so that we stop abusing the
"journal" and "undo" mechanism instead of the proper backup mechanism of the
transaction.


Also note that this change regress the warning message for the legacy fallback
introduced in 2008 when issue902 got fixed in dd5a501cb97f (Mercurial 1.0).

I feel like this is fine as issue 902 remains fixed, and this would only affect
people deploying a mix of 15 year old Mercurial and modern mercurial, and using
branch and rollback extensively.

# In most cases, the mercurial repository can be read by the bundled hg, but
# that isn't always true because third-party extensions may change the store
# format, for example. In which case, the system hg installation is used.
#
# We want to use the hg version being tested when interacting with the test
# repository, and the system hg when interacting with the mercurial source code
# repository.
#
# The mercurial source repository was typically orignally cloned with the
# system mercurial installation, and may require extensions or settings from
# the system installation.

if [ -n "$HGTESTEXTRAEXTENSIONS" ]; then
    for extension in $HGTESTEXTRAEXTENSIONS; do
        extraoptions="$extraoptions --config extensions.$extension=!"
    done
fi

syshg () {
    (
        syshgenv
        exec hg "$@"
    )
}

# Revert the environment so that running "hg" runs the system hg
# rather than the test hg installation.
syshgenv () {
    . "$HGTEST_RESTOREENV"
    HGPLAIN=1
    export HGPLAIN
}

# The test-repo is a live hg repository which may have evolution markers
# created, e.g. when a ~/.hgrc enabled evolution.
#
# Tests may be run using a custom HGRCPATH, which do not enable evolution
# markers by default.
#
# If test-repo includes evolution markers, and we do not enable evolution
# markers, hg will occasionally complain when it notices them, which disrupts
# tests resulting in sporadic failures.
#
# Since we aren't performing any write operations on the test-repo, there's
# no harm in telling hg that we support evolution markers, which is what the
# following lines for the hgrc file do:
cat >> "$HGRCPATH" << EOF
[experimental]
evolution = createmarkers
EOF

# Use the system hg command if the bundled hg can't read the repository with
# no warning nor error.
if [ -n "`hg id -R "$TESTDIR/.." 2>&1 >/dev/null`" ]; then
    alias testrepohg=syshg
    alias testrepohgenv=syshgenv
else
    alias testrepohg="hg $extraoptions"
    alias testrepohgenv=:
fi