setup.py, make: avoid problems with outdated, existing hgext/__index__.py*
"make clean" already removed __index__.py[cdo], but not the __index__.py
(automatically generated by "python setup.py build_hgextindex").
"setup.py build_hgextindex" did not generate a new index if file
__index__.py[cdo] already existed, because if __index__.py was removed,
the compiled file containing the old information was imported and used.
Generate an empty file (with a new timestamp to generate a new .py[cdo])
instead and make mercurial.extensions ignore the unset docs attribute.
One of the problems was a failed test-help.t, to reproduce:
$ rm hgext/__index__.py*
$ echo 'docs = {"mq": "dummy"}' > hgext/__index__.py
$ make test-help.t
With this a "make clean" or "python setup.py build_hgextindex" helps.
$ hg init
$ python -c 'file("a", "wb").write("confuse str.splitlines\nembedded\rnewline\n")'
$ hg ci -Ama -d '1 0'
adding a
$ echo clean diff >> a
$ hg ci -mb -d '2 0'
$ hg diff -r0 -r1
diff -r 107ba6f817b5 -r 310ce7989cdc a
--- a/a Thu Jan 01 00:00:01 1970 +0000
+++ b/a Thu Jan 01 00:00:02 1970 +0000
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
confuse str.splitlines
embedded\r (no-eol) (esc)
newline
+clean diff