view mercurial/repo.py @ 13750:7eb82f88e157

# User Dan Villiom Podlaski Christiansen <[e-mail]>
# Date 1289564504 -3600
# Node ID b75264c15cc888cf38c3c7b8f619801e3c2589c7
# Parent  89b2e5d940f669e590096c6be70eee61c9172fff
revsets: overload the branch() revset to also take a branch name.

This should only change semantics in the specific case of a tag/branch
conflict where the tag wasn't done on the branch with the same
name. Previously, branch(whatever) would resolve to the branch of the
tag in that case, whereas now it will resolve to the branch of the
name. The previous behaviour, while documented, seemed very
counter-intuitive to me.

An alternate approach would be to introduce a new revset such as
branchname() or namedbranch(). While this would retain backwards
compatibility, the distinction between it and branch() would not be
readily apparent to users. The most intuitive behaviour would be to
have branch(x) require 'x' to be a branch name, and something like
branchof(x) or samebranch(x) do what branch(x) currently
does. Unfortunately, our backwards compatibility guarantees prevent us
from doing that.

Please note that while 'hg tag' guards against shadowing a branch, 'hg
branch' does not. Besides, even if it did, that wouldn't solve the
issue of conversions with such tags and branches...

# repo.py - repository base classes for mercurial
#
# Copyright 2005, 2006 Matt Mackall <[e-mail]>
# Copyright 2006 Vadim Gelfer <[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 i18n import _
import error

class repository(object):
    def capable(self, name):
        '''tell whether repo supports named capability.
        return False if not supported.
        if boolean capability, return True.
        if string capability, return string.'''
        if name in self.capabilities:
            return True
        name_eq = name + '='
        for cap in self.capabilities:
            if cap.startswith(name_eq):
                return cap[len(name_eq):]
        return False

    def requirecap(self, name, purpose):
        '''raise an exception if the given capability is not present'''
        if not self.capable(name):
            raise error.CapabilityError(
                _('cannot %s; remote repository does not '
                  'support the %r capability') % (purpose, name))

    def local(self):
        return False

    def cancopy(self):
        return self.local()

    def close(self):
        pass