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show: new extension for displaying various repository data Currently, Mercurial has a number of commands to show information. And, there are features coming down the pipe that will introduce more commands for showing information. Currently, when introducing a new class of data or a view that we wish to expose to the user, the strategy is to introduce a new command or overload an existing command, sometimes both. For example, there is a desire to formalize the wip/smartlog/underway/mine functionality that many have devised. There is also a desire to introduce a "topics" concept. Others would like views of "the current stack." In the current model, we'd need a new command for wip/smartlog/etc (that behaves a lot like a pre-defined alias of `hg log`). For topics, we'd likely overload `hg topic[s]` to both display and manipulate topics. Adding new commands for every pre-defined query doesn't scale well and pollutes `hg help`. Overloading commands to perform read-only and write operations is arguably an UX anti-pattern: while having all functionality for a given concept in one command is nice, having a single command doing multiple discrete operations is not. Furthermore, a user may be surprised that a command they thought was read-only actually changes something. We discussed this at the Mercurial 4.0 Sprint in Paris and decided that having a single command where we could hang pre-defined views of various data would be a good idea. Having such a command would: * Help prevent an explosion of new query-related commands * Create a clear separation between read and write operations (mitigates footguns) * Avoids overloading the meaning of commands that manipulate data (bookmark, tag, branch, etc) (while we can't take away the existing behavior for BC reasons, we now won't introduce this behavior on new commands) * Allows users to discover informational views more easily by aggregating them in a single location * Lowers the barrier to creating the new views (since the barrier to creating a top-level command is relatively high) So, this commit introduces the `hg show` command via the "show" extension. This command accepts a positional argument of the "view" to show. New views can be registered with a decorator. To prove it works, we implement the "bookmarks" view, which shows a table of bookmarks and their associated nodes. We introduce a new style to hold everything used by `hg show`. For our initial bookmarks view, the output varies from `hg bookmarks`: * Padding is performed in the template itself as opposed to Python * Revision integers are not shown * shortest() is used to display a 5 character node by default (as opposed to static 12 characters) I chose to implement the "bookmarks" view first because it is simple and shouldn't invite too much bikeshedding that detracts from the evaluation of `hg show` itself. But there is an important point to consider: we now have 2 ways to show a list of bookmarks. I'm not a fan of introducing multiple ways to do very similar things. So it might be worth discussing how we wish to tackle this issue for bookmarks, tags, branches, MQ series, etc. I also made the choice of explicitly declaring the default show template not part of the standard BC guarantees. History has shown that we make mistakes and poor choices with output formatting but can't fix these mistakes later because random tools are parsing output and we don't want to break these tools. Optimizing for human consumption is one of my goals for `hg show`. So, by not covering the formatting as part of BC, the barrier to future change is much lower and humans benefit. There are some improvements that can be made to formatting. For example, we don't yet use label() in the templates. We obviously want this for color. But I'm not sure if we should reuse the existing log.* labels or invent new ones. I figure we can punt that to a follow-up. At the aforementioned Sprint, we discussed and discarded various alternatives to `hg show`. We considered making `hg log <view>` perform this behavior. The main reason we can't do this is because a positional argument to `hg log` can be a file path and if there is a conflict between a path name and a view name, behavior is ambiguous. We could have introduced `hg log --view` or similar, but we felt that required too much typing (we don't want to require a command flag to show a view) and wasn't very discoverable. Furthermore, `hg log` is optimized for showing changelog data and there are things that `hg display` could display that aren't changelog centric. There were concerns about using "show" as the command name. Some users already have a "show" alias that is similar to `hg export`. There were also concerns that Git users adapted to `git show` would be confused by `hg show`'s different behavior. The main difference here is `git show` prints an `hg export` like view of the current commit by default and `hg show` requires an argument. `git show` can also display any Git object. `git show` does not support displaying more complex views: just single objects. If we implemented `hg show <hash>` or `hg show <identifier>`, `hg show` would be a superset of `git show`. Although, I'm hesitant to do that at this time because I view `hg show` as a higher-level querying command and there are namespace collisions between valid identifiers and registered views. There is also a prefix collision with `hg showconfig`, which is an alias of `hg config`. We also considered `hg view`, but that is already used by the "hgk" extension. `hg display` was also proposed at one point. It has a prefix collision with `hg diff`. General consensus was "show" or "view" are the best verbs. And since "view" was taken, "show" was chosen. There are a number of inline TODOs in this patch. Some of these represent decisions yet to be made. Others represent features requiring non-trivial complexity. Rather than bloat the patch or invite additional bikeshedding, I figured I'd document future enhancements via TODO so we can get a minimal implmentation landed. Something is better than nothing.
author Gregory Szorc <gregory.szorc@gmail.com>
date Fri, 24 Mar 2017 19:19:00 -0700
parents be5b2098a817
children 8ac7ac714e92
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# filelog.py - file history class for mercurial
#
# Copyright 2005-2007 Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
#
# This software may be used and distributed according to the terms of the
# GNU General Public License version 2 or any later version.

from __future__ import absolute_import

import re
import struct

from . import (
    error,
    mdiff,
    revlog,
)

_mdre = re.compile('\1\n')
def parsemeta(text):
    """return (metadatadict, keylist, metadatasize)"""
    # text can be buffer, so we can't use .startswith or .index
    if text[:2] != '\1\n':
        return None, None
    s = _mdre.search(text, 2).start()
    mtext = text[2:s]
    meta = {}
    for l in mtext.splitlines():
        k, v = l.split(": ", 1)
        meta[k] = v
    return meta, (s + 2)

def packmeta(meta, text):
    keys = sorted(meta.iterkeys())
    metatext = "".join("%s: %s\n" % (k, meta[k]) for k in keys)
    return "\1\n%s\1\n%s" % (metatext, text)

def _censoredtext(text):
    m, offs = parsemeta(text)
    return m and "censored" in m

class filelog(revlog.revlog):
    def __init__(self, opener, path):
        super(filelog, self).__init__(opener,
                        "/".join(("data", path + ".i")))

    def read(self, node):
        t = self.revision(node)
        if not t.startswith('\1\n'):
            return t
        s = t.index('\1\n', 2)
        return t[s + 2:]

    def add(self, text, meta, transaction, link, p1=None, p2=None):
        if meta or text.startswith('\1\n'):
            text = packmeta(meta, text)
        return self.addrevision(text, transaction, link, p1, p2)

    def renamed(self, node):
        if self.parents(node)[0] != revlog.nullid:
            return False
        t = self.revision(node)
        m = parsemeta(t)[0]
        if m and "copy" in m:
            return (m["copy"], revlog.bin(m["copyrev"]))
        return False

    def size(self, rev):
        """return the size of a given revision"""

        # for revisions with renames, we have to go the slow way
        node = self.node(rev)
        if self.renamed(node):
            return len(self.read(node))
        if self.iscensored(rev):
            return 0

        # XXX if self.read(node).startswith("\1\n"), this returns (size+4)
        return super(filelog, self).size(rev)

    def cmp(self, node, text):
        """compare text with a given file revision

        returns True if text is different than what is stored.
        """

        t = text
        if text.startswith('\1\n'):
            t = '\1\n\1\n' + text

        samehashes = not super(filelog, self).cmp(node, t)
        if samehashes:
            return False

        # censored files compare against the empty file
        if self.iscensored(self.rev(node)):
            return text != ''

        # renaming a file produces a different hash, even if the data
        # remains unchanged. Check if it's the case (slow):
        if self.renamed(node):
            t2 = self.read(node)
            return t2 != text

        return True

    def checkhash(self, text, node, p1=None, p2=None, rev=None):
        try:
            super(filelog, self).checkhash(text, node, p1=p1, p2=p2, rev=rev)
        except error.RevlogError:
            if _censoredtext(text):
                raise error.CensoredNodeError(self.indexfile, node, text)
            raise

    def iscensored(self, rev):
        """Check if a file revision is censored."""
        return self.flags(rev) & revlog.REVIDX_ISCENSORED

    def _peek_iscensored(self, baserev, delta, flush):
        """Quickly check if a delta produces a censored revision."""
        # Fragile heuristic: unless new file meta keys are added alphabetically
        # preceding "censored", all censored revisions are prefixed by
        # "\1\ncensored:". A delta producing such a censored revision must be a
        # full-replacement delta, so we inspect the first and only patch in the
        # delta for this prefix.
        hlen = struct.calcsize(">lll")
        if len(delta) <= hlen:
            return False

        oldlen = self.rawsize(baserev)
        newlen = len(delta) - hlen
        if delta[:hlen] != mdiff.replacediffheader(oldlen, newlen):
            return False

        add = "\1\ncensored:"
        addlen = len(add)
        return newlen >= addlen and delta[hlen:hlen + addlen] == add