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
from __future__ import absolute_import
from __future__ import print_function
import unittest
from mercurial import mdiff
class splitnewlinesTests(unittest.TestCase):
def test_splitnewlines(self):
cases = {
b'a\nb\nc\n': [b'a\n', b'b\n', b'c\n'],
b'a\nb\nc': [b'a\n', b'b\n', b'c'],
b'a\nb\nc\n\n': [b'a\n', b'b\n', b'c\n', b'\n'],
b'': [],
b'abcabc': [b'abcabc'],
}
for inp, want in cases.items():
self.assertEqual(mdiff.splitnewlines(inp), want)
if __name__ == '__main__':
import silenttestrunner
silenttestrunner.main(__name__)