basectx: add an empty class that will be used as a parent of all contexts
At the moment, there is no simple way to check if an object is a context
because there is no common parent class. If there were, we could use
'isinstance' everywhere. Simply having memctx inherit from workingctx or
changectx would allow the use of 'isinstance' but that could lead to some
confusing situations of reading the code since we have three distinct concepts
of a context:
- changectx represents a changeset *already* in the repo, and is therefore immutable
- workingctx represents changes on disk in the working directory
- memctx represents changes solely in memory which may or may not be on disk
Therefore, I propose refactoring context.py to have all three contexts inherit
from a parent class 'basectx'.
$ 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 ..