merge: introduce new format for the state file
This new format will allow us to address common bugs while doing special merge
(graft, backout, rebaseā¦) and record user choice during conflict resolution.
The format is open so we can add more record for future usage.
This file still store hexified version of node to help human willing to debug
it by hand. The overhead or oversize are not expected be an issue.
The old format is still used. It will be written to disk along side the newer
format. And at parse time we detect if the data from old version of the
mergestate are different from the one in the new version file. If its the same,
both have most likely be written at the same time and you can trust the extra
data from the new file. If it differs, the old file have been written by an
older version of mercurial that did not knew about the new file. In that case we
use the content of the old file.
syntax: glob
*.elc
*.tmp
*.orig
*.rej
*~
*.mergebackup
*.o
*.so
*.dll
*.exe
*.pyd
*.pyc
*.pyo
*$py.class
*.swp
*.prof
*.zip
\#*\#
.\#*
tests/.coverage*
tests/annotated
tests/*.err
tests/htmlcov
build
contrib/hgsh/hgsh
dist
doc/common.txt
doc/*.[0-9]
doc/*.[0-9].txt
doc/*.[0-9].gendoc.txt
doc/*.[0-9].{x,ht}ml
MANIFEST
MANIFEST.in
patches
mercurial/__version__.py
mercurial/hgpythonlib.h
mercurial.egg-info
.DS_Store
tags
cscope.*
i18n/hg.pot
locale/*/LC_MESSAGES/hg.mo
hgext/__index__.py
# files installed with a local --pure build
mercurial/base85.py
mercurial/bdiff.py
mercurial/diffhelpers.py
mercurial/mpatch.py
mercurial/osutil.py
mercurial/parsers.py
syntax: regexp
^\.pc/
^\.(pydev)?project
# hackable windows distribution additions
^hg-python
^hg.py$