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documentation: add some internals documentation about bid merge

This is an important algorithm that was only documented on the wiki so far.

Some update to the algorithm (and associated doc) is to expected in the future
since the bid merge algorithm is bug-ridden when it comes to file deletion comes
to play.

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D8711

# diffhelper.py - helper routines for patch
#
# Copyright 2009 Matt Mackall <[e-mail]> and others
#
# This software may be used and distributed according to the terms of the
# GNU General Public License version 2 or any later version.

from __future__ import absolute_import

from .i18n import _

from . import (
    error,
    pycompat,
)


def addlines(fp, hunk, lena, lenb, a, b):
    """Read lines from fp into the hunk

    The hunk is parsed into two arrays, a and b. a gets the old state of
    the text, b gets the new state. The control char from the hunk is saved
    when inserting into a, but not b (for performance while deleting files.)
    """
    while True:
        todoa = lena - len(a)
        todob = lenb - len(b)
        num = max(todoa, todob)
        if num == 0:
            break
        for i in pycompat.xrange(num):
            s = fp.readline()
            if not s:
                raise error.ParseError(_(b'incomplete hunk'))
            if s == b"\\ No newline at end of file\n":
                fixnewline(hunk, a, b)
                continue
            if s == b'\n' or s == b'\r\n':
                # Some patches may be missing the control char
                # on empty lines. Supply a leading space.
                s = b' ' + s
            hunk.append(s)
            if s.startswith(b'+'):
                b.append(s[1:])
            elif s.startswith(b'-'):
                a.append(s)
            else:
                b.append(s[1:])
                a.append(s)


def fixnewline(hunk, a, b):
    """Fix up the last lines of a and b when the patch has no newline at EOF"""
    l = hunk[-1]
    # tolerate CRLF in last line
    if l.endswith(b'\r\n'):
        hline = l[:-2]
    else:
        hline = l[:-1]

    if hline.startswith((b' ', b'+')):
        b[-1] = hline[1:]
    if hline.startswith((b' ', b'-')):
        a[-1] = hline
    hunk[-1] = hline


def testhunk(a, b, bstart):
    """Compare the lines in a with the lines in b

    a is assumed to have a control char at the start of each line, this char
    is ignored in the compare.
    """
    alen = len(a)
    blen = len(b)
    if alen > blen - bstart or bstart < 0:
        return False
    for i in pycompat.xrange(alen):
        if a[i][1:] != b[i + bstart]:
            return False
    return True