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
$ hg init
$ mkdir alpha
$ touch alpha/one
$ mkdir beta
$ touch beta/two
$ hg add alpha/one beta/two
$ hg ci -m "start"
$ echo 1 > alpha/one
$ echo 2 > beta/two
everything
$ hg diff --nodates
diff -r 7d5ef1aea329 alpha/one
--- a/alpha/one
+++ b/alpha/one
@@ -0,0 +1,1 @@
+1
diff -r 7d5ef1aea329 beta/two
--- a/beta/two
+++ b/beta/two
@@ -0,0 +1,1 @@
+2
beta only
$ hg diff --nodates beta
diff -r 7d5ef1aea329 beta/two
--- a/beta/two
+++ b/beta/two
@@ -0,0 +1,1 @@
+2
inside beta
$ cd beta
$ hg diff --nodates .
diff -r 7d5ef1aea329 beta/two
--- a/beta/two
+++ b/beta/two
@@ -0,0 +1,1 @@
+2
relative to beta
$ cd ..
$ hg diff --nodates --root beta
diff -r 7d5ef1aea329 two
--- a/two
+++ b/two
@@ -0,0 +1,1 @@
+2
inside beta
$ cd beta
$ hg diff --nodates --root .
diff -r 7d5ef1aea329 two
--- a/two
+++ b/two
@@ -0,0 +1,1 @@
+2
$ cd ..