hgext/censor.py

help: add a mechanism to change flags' help depending on config

It seems reasonable to have a similar mechanism for the rest of the
help, but no such thing is implemented.

The goal is to make the help of commands clearer in the presence of
significant default changes, like tweakdefaults or with company-wide
hgrcs. In these cases, a user looking at the help of a command doesn't
exactly know what his hgrc is doing.

Apply to this to the --git option of commands that display diffs, as
this option in particular causes confusion for some reason.

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D8100

# Copyright (C) 2015 - Mike Edgar <[e-mail]>
#
# This extension enables removal of file content at a given revision,
# rewriting the data/metadata of successive revisions to preserve revision log
# integrity.

"""erase file content at a given revision

The censor command instructs Mercurial to erase all content of a file at a given
revision *without updating the changeset hash.* This allows existing history to
remain valid while preventing future clones/pulls from receiving the erased
data.

Typical uses for censor are due to security or legal requirements, including::

 * Passwords, private keys, cryptographic material
 * Licensed data/code/libraries for which the license has expired
 * Personally Identifiable Information or other private data

Censored nodes can interrupt mercurial's typical operation whenever the excised
data needs to be materialized. Some commands, like ``hg cat``/``hg revert``,
simply fail when asked to produce censored data. Others, like ``hg verify`` and
``hg update``, must be capable of tolerating censored data to continue to
function in a meaningful way. Such commands only tolerate censored file
revisions if they are allowed by the "censor.policy=ignore" config option.

A few informative commands such as ``hg grep`` will unconditionally
ignore censored data and merely report that it was encountered.
"""

from __future__ import absolute_import

from mercurial.i18n import _
from mercurial.node import short

from mercurial import (
    error,
    registrar,
    scmutil,
)

cmdtable = {}
command = registrar.command(cmdtable)
# 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'


@command(
    b'censor',
    [
        (
            b'r',
            b'rev',
            b'',
            _(b'censor file from specified revision'),
            _(b'REV'),
        ),
        (b't', b'tombstone', b'', _(b'replacement tombstone data'), _(b'TEXT')),
    ],
    _(b'-r REV [-t TEXT] [FILE]'),
    helpcategory=command.CATEGORY_MAINTENANCE,
)
def censor(ui, repo, path, rev=b'', tombstone=b'', **opts):
    with repo.wlock(), repo.lock():
        return _docensor(ui, repo, path, rev, tombstone, **opts)


def _docensor(ui, repo, path, rev=b'', tombstone=b'', **opts):
    if not path:
        raise error.Abort(_(b'must specify file path to censor'))
    if not rev:
        raise error.Abort(_(b'must specify revision to censor'))

    wctx = repo[None]

    m = scmutil.match(wctx, (path,))
    if m.anypats() or len(m.files()) != 1:
        raise error.Abort(_(b'can only specify an explicit filename'))
    path = m.files()[0]
    flog = repo.file(path)
    if not len(flog):
        raise error.Abort(_(b'cannot censor file with no history'))

    rev = scmutil.revsingle(repo, rev, rev).rev()
    try:
        ctx = repo[rev]
    except KeyError:
        raise error.Abort(_(b'invalid revision identifier %s') % rev)

    try:
        fctx = ctx.filectx(path)
    except error.LookupError:
        raise error.Abort(_(b'file does not exist at revision %s') % rev)

    fnode = fctx.filenode()
    heads = []
    for headnode in repo.heads():
        hc = repo[headnode]
        if path in hc and hc.filenode(path) == fnode:
            heads.append(hc)
    if heads:
        headlist = b', '.join([short(c.node()) for c in heads])
        raise error.Abort(
            _(b'cannot censor file in heads (%s)') % headlist,
            hint=_(b'clean/delete and commit first'),
        )

    wp = wctx.parents()
    if ctx.node() in [p.node() for p in wp]:
        raise error.Abort(
            _(b'cannot censor working directory'),
            hint=_(b'clean/delete/update first'),
        )

    with repo.transaction(b'censor') as tr:
        flog.censorrevision(tr, fnode, tombstone=tombstone)