update: teach hg to override untracked dir with a tracked file on update
This is a fix to an old problem when Mercurial got confused by an
untracked folder with the same name as one of the files in a commit
hg was trying to update to. It is pretty safe to remove this folder if
it is empty. Backing up an empty folder seems to go against Mercurial's
"don't track dirs" philosophy.
$ cat > echo.py <<EOF
> #!/usr/bin/env python
> import os, sys
> try:
> import msvcrt
> msvcrt.setmode(sys.stdout.fileno(), os.O_BINARY)
> msvcrt.setmode(sys.stderr.fileno(), os.O_BINARY)
> except ImportError:
> pass
>
> for k in ('HG_FILE', 'HG_MY_ISLINK', 'HG_OTHER_ISLINK', 'HG_BASE_ISLINK'):
> print k, os.environ[k]
> EOF
Create 2 heads containing the same file, once as
a file, once as a link. Bundle was generated with:
# hg init t
# cd t
# echo a > a
# hg ci -qAm t0 -d '0 0'
# echo l > l
# hg ci -qAm t1 -d '1 0'
# hg up -C 0
# ln -s a l
# hg ci -qAm t2 -d '2 0'
# echo l2 > l2
# hg ci -qAm t3 -d '3 0'
$ hg init t
$ cd t
$ hg -q pull "$TESTDIR/bundles/test-merge-symlinks.hg"
$ hg up -C 3
3 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
Merge them and display *_ISLINK vars
merge heads
$ hg merge --tool="python ../echo.py"
merging l
HG_FILE l
HG_MY_ISLINK 1
HG_OTHER_ISLINK 0
HG_BASE_ISLINK 0
0 files updated, 1 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
(branch merge, don't forget to commit)
Test working directory symlink bit calculation wrt copies,
especially on non-supporting systems.
merge working directory
$ hg up -C 2
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 1 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ hg copy l l2
$ HGMERGE="python ../echo.py" hg up 3
merging l2
HG_FILE l2
HG_MY_ISLINK 1
HG_OTHER_ISLINK 0
HG_BASE_ISLINK 0
0 files updated, 1 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ cd ..