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revset: fix resolving strings from a list
When using multiple revsets that get optimized into a list (like
hg log -r r1235 -r r1237 in hgsubversion), the revset list code was assuming the
strings were resolvable via repo[X]. hgsubversion and other extensions override
def stringset() to allow processing different revision identifiers (such as
r1235 or g<githash>), and there for the _list() implementation was circumventing
that resolution.
The fix is to just call stringset(). The default implementaiton does the same
thing that _list was already doing (namely repo[X]).
This has always been broken, but it was recently exposed by 4ee4f7415095 which
made "--rev X --rev Y" produce a combined revset "X | Y".
author | Durham Goode <durham@fb.com> |
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date | Tue, 01 Sep 2015 16:46:05 -0700 |
parents | ebfc46929f3e |
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Mercurial's default format for showing changes between two versions of a file is compatible with the unified format of GNU diff, which can be used by GNU patch and many other standard tools. While this standard format is often enough, it does not encode the following information: - executable status and other permission bits - copy or rename information - changes in binary files - creation or deletion of empty files Mercurial also supports the extended diff format from the git VCS which addresses these limitations. The git diff format is not produced by default because a few widespread tools still do not understand this format. This means that when generating diffs from a Mercurial repository (e.g. with :hg:`export`), you should be careful about things like file copies and renames or other things mentioned above, because when applying a standard diff to a different repository, this extra information is lost. Mercurial's internal operations (like push and pull) are not affected by this, because they use an internal binary format for communicating changes. To make Mercurial produce the git extended diff format, use the --git option available for many commands, or set 'git = True' in the [diff] section of your configuration file. You do not need to set this option when importing diffs in this format or using them in the mq extension.