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destutil: provide hint on rebase+merge for how to specify destination/rev
Without a destination specified, rebase and merge attempt to identify a good
candidate; this fails if there's too many heads, the heads have a bookmark, or
other reasons.
Complicating the issue, users may have specified -t, thinking it means target,
and are confused when the error message says that they need to specify an
explicit rev or explicit destination - they feel like they already have.
Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D7024
author | Kyle Lippincott <spectral@google.com> |
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date | Tue, 08 Oct 2019 19:35:30 -0700 |
parents | ebfc46929f3e |
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Mercurial's default format for showing changes between two versions of a file is compatible with the unified format of GNU diff, which can be used by GNU patch and many other standard tools. While this standard format is often enough, it does not encode the following information: - executable status and other permission bits - copy or rename information - changes in binary files - creation or deletion of empty files Mercurial also supports the extended diff format from the git VCS which addresses these limitations. The git diff format is not produced by default because a few widespread tools still do not understand this format. This means that when generating diffs from a Mercurial repository (e.g. with :hg:`export`), you should be careful about things like file copies and renames or other things mentioned above, because when applying a standard diff to a different repository, this extra information is lost. Mercurial's internal operations (like push and pull) are not affected by this, because they use an internal binary format for communicating changes. To make Mercurial produce the git extended diff format, use the --git option available for many commands, or set 'git = True' in the [diff] section of your configuration file. You do not need to set this option when importing diffs in this format or using them in the mq extension.