view mercurial/rewriteutil.py @ 45059:79f6f9fa18c1

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

# rewriteutil.py - utility functions for rewriting changesets
#
# Copyright 2017 Octobus <[e-mail]>
#
# 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,
    node,
    obsolete,
    revset,
)


def precheck(repo, revs, action=b'rewrite'):
    """check if revs can be rewritten
    action is used to control the error message.

    Make sure this function is called after taking the lock.
    """
    if node.nullrev in revs:
        msg = _(b"cannot %s null changeset") % action
        hint = _(b"no changeset checked out")
        raise error.Abort(msg, hint=hint)

    if len(repo[None].parents()) > 1:
        raise error.Abort(_(b"cannot %s while merging") % action)

    publicrevs = repo.revs(b'%ld and public()', revs)
    if publicrevs:
        msg = _(b"cannot %s public changesets") % action
        hint = _(b"see 'hg help phases' for details")
        raise error.Abort(msg, hint=hint)

    newunstable = disallowednewunstable(repo, revs)
    if newunstable:
        raise error.Abort(_(b"cannot %s changeset with children") % action)


def disallowednewunstable(repo, revs):
    """Checks whether editing the revs will create new unstable changesets and
    are we allowed to create them.

    To allow new unstable changesets, set the config:
        `experimental.evolution.allowunstable=True`
    """
    allowunstable = obsolete.isenabled(repo, obsolete.allowunstableopt)
    if allowunstable:
        return revset.baseset()
    return repo.revs(b"(%ld::) - %ld", revs, revs)