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 repo
$ cd repo
$ hg init subrepo
$ echo a > subrepo/a
$ hg -R subrepo ci -Am adda
adding a
$ echo 'subrepo = subrepo' > .hgsub
$ hg ci -Am addsubrepo
adding .hgsub
$ echo b > subrepo/b
$ hg -R subrepo ci -Am addb
adding b
$ hg ci -m updatedsub
ignore blanklines in .hgsubstate
>>> file('.hgsubstate', 'wb').write('\n\n \t \n \n')
$ hg st --subrepos
M .hgsubstate
$ hg revert -qC .hgsubstate
abort more gracefully on .hgsubstate parsing error
$ cp .hgsubstate .hgsubstate.old
>>> file('.hgsubstate', 'wb').write('\ninvalid')
$ hg st --subrepos
abort: invalid subrepository revision specifier in .hgsubstate line 2
[255]
$ mv .hgsubstate.old .hgsubstate
delete .hgsub and revert it
$ rm .hgsub
$ hg revert .hgsub
warning: subrepo spec file .hgsub not found
warning: subrepo spec file .hgsub not found
delete .hgsubstate and revert it
$ rm .hgsubstate
$ hg revert .hgsubstate
delete .hgsub and update
$ rm .hgsub
$ hg up 0
warning: subrepo spec file .hgsub not found
warning: subrepo spec file .hgsub not found
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ hg st
warning: subrepo spec file .hgsub not found
! .hgsub
$ ls subrepo
a
delete .hgsubstate and update
$ hg up -C
warning: subrepo spec file .hgsub not found
warning: subrepo spec file .hgsub not found
2 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ rm .hgsubstate
$ hg up 0
remote changed .hgsubstate which local deleted
use (c)hanged version or leave (d)eleted? c
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ hg st
$ ls subrepo
a
$ cd ..