simplemerge: stop merging file flags
As
384df4db6520 (merge: merge file flags together with file content,
2013-01-09) explains, we shouldn't do a 3-way merge of the
symlink. However, since
84614212ae39 (flags: actually merge flags in
simplemerge, 2020-05-16), we do that in
`simplemerge.simplemerge()`. What's more, the merging of the
executable flag there isn't actually necessary; it was made a no-op by
the very next commit, i.e.
4234c9af515d (flags: read flag from
dirstate/disk for workingcopyctx (
issue5743), 2020-05-16).
I found the overall flag-merging code (not the bit in
`simplemerge.py`) very hard to follow, but I think I now finally
understand how it works. `mergestate.resolve()` calculates the merged
file flags and sets them on the local side of the merge (confusingly
by calling `_restore_backup()`). Then it calls
`filemerge.filemerge()`, which in turn calls
`simplemerge.simplemerge()` (if premerge is enabled). That means that
the flags on the local side `fcs.flags()` are already correct when the
flag-merging code in `simplemerge.simplemerge()` runs. Interestingly,
that code still works when the local side already has the merged
value, it just doesn't change the value. Here's a truth table to
explain why:
```
BLOMCAR
0000000
0011111
0101011
0111111
1000000
1010000
1100000
1111101
```
B: Base
L: Local
O: Other
M: Merged flags from `mergestate.resolve()`, i.e. what's called "local"
when we get to `simplemerge.simplemerge()`
C: `commonflags` in `simplemerge.simplemerge()`, i.e. `M & O`
A: `addedflags` in `simplemerge.simplemerge()`, i.e. `(M ^ O) - B`
R: Re-merged flags `simplemerge.simplemerge()`, i.e. `C | A`
As you can see, the re-merged flags are always unchanged compared to
the initial merged flags (R equals M).
Therefore, this patch effectively backs out
84614212ae39. (I might
later refactor this code to have the flags explicitly passed in.)
`simplemerge.simplemerge()` is also called from
`contrib/simplemerge.py`, but that code never passes any flags.
Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D11879
Minimal hgk check
$ echo "[extensions]" >> $HGRCPATH
$ echo "hgk=" >> $HGRCPATH
$ hg init repo
$ cd repo
$ echo a > a
$ hg ci -Am adda
adding a
$ hg debug-cat-file commit 0
tree a0c8bcbbb45c
parent 000000000000
author test 0 0
revision 0
branch default
phase draft
adda
$ echo b > b
$ hg ci -Am addb
adding b
$ hg log -T '{node}\n'
102a90ea7b4a3361e4082ed620918c261189a36a
07f4944404050f47db2e5c5071e0e84e7a27bba9
$ hg debug-diff-tree 07f494440405 102a90ea7b4a
:000000 100664 000000000000 1e88685f5dde N b b
$ hg debug-diff-tree 07f494440405 102a90ea7b4a --patch
diff --git a/b b/b
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/b
@@ -0,0 +1,1 @@
+b
Ensure that diff-tree output isn't affected by diffopts
$ hg --config diff.noprefix=True debug-diff-tree 07f494440405 102a90ea7b4a
:000000 100664 000000000000 1e88685f5dde N b b
$ hg --config diff.noprefix=True debug-diff-tree --patch 07f494440405 102a90ea7b4a
diff --git a/b b/b
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/b
@@ -0,0 +1,1 @@
+b
$ cd ..