view tests/test-empty-file.t @ 17103:5146de7bce96

convert: keep branch switching merges with ancestors (issue3340)

When running convert with a filemap, merge parents which are ancestors
of other parents are ignored. This is hardly a problem when parents
belong to the same branch, but the result could be confusing when named
branches are involved. With:

  -o-a1-a2-a3...     <- A
    \           \
     b1-b2-b3...-m-  <- B

If all b* revisions are discarded, it is useful to preserve 'm' even if
it is empty after filtering to record the branch switch.

This patch makes filemap preserve "ancestor parents" if there is no
"non-ancestor parent" on the same branch than the merge revision.

Remarks:
- I am not completely convinced by the reasons given above and those
  detailed by Matt in this thread:

http://selenic.com/pipermail/mercurial-devel/2012-May/040627.html

  The properties we try to preserve are not clearly defined. That said,
  I know this patch already helped someone on IRC and the tests output
  look reasonable.

- This is a new version of the original "convert: filemap must preserve
  fast-forward merges" patch. It has exactly the same output for 2
  parents merges, the additional complexity is here to handle more than
  two parents.

  $ hg init a
  $ cd a
  $ touch empty1
  $ hg add empty1
  $ hg commit -m 'add empty1'

  $ touch empty2
  $ hg add empty2
  $ hg commit -m 'add empty2'

  $ hg up -C 0
  0 files updated, 0 files merged, 1 files removed, 0 files unresolved
  $ touch empty3
  $ hg add empty3
  $ hg commit -m 'add empty3'
  created new head

  $ hg heads
  changeset:   2:a1cb177e0d44
  tag:         tip
  parent:      0:1e1d9c4e5b64
  user:        test
  date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
  summary:     add empty3
  
  changeset:   1:097d2b0e17f6
  user:        test
  date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
  summary:     add empty2
  

  $ hg merge 1
  1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
  (branch merge, don't forget to commit)

Before changeset 05257fd28591, we didn't notice the
empty file that came from rev 1:

  $ hg status
  M empty2
  $ hg commit -m merge
  $ hg manifest --debug tip
  b80de5d138758541c5f05265ad144ab9fa86d1db 644   empty1
  b80de5d138758541c5f05265ad144ab9fa86d1db 644   empty2
  b80de5d138758541c5f05265ad144ab9fa86d1db 644   empty3

  $ cd ..