view tests/test-merge-types.t @ 13955:86b5cc1e8be8 stable

help config: explain that config files do not exist by default

Inspired by critique given on StackOverflow where a user writes:

  I can have a good guess at what "%USERPROFILE%" might signify but
  none of the files listed in the "hg help config" output exist after
  running the installer. Previous experience would suggest that
  missing files mean something somewhere has gone seriously wrong.

  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2329023/2351139#2351139

  $ hg init

  $ echo a > a
  $ hg ci -Amadd
  adding a

  $ chmod +x a
  $ hg ci -mexecutable

  $ hg up 0
  0 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
  $ rm a
  $ ln -s symlink a
  $ hg ci -msymlink
  created new head

  $ hg merge --debug
    searching for copies back to rev 1
  resolving manifests
   overwrite None partial False
   ancestor c334dc3be0da local 521a1e40188f+ remote 3574f3e69b1c
   conflicting flags for a
  (n)one, e(x)ec or sym(l)ink? n
   a: update permissions -> e
  updating: a 1/1 files (100.00%)
  0 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
  (branch merge, don't forget to commit)


Symlink is local parent, executable is other:

  $ if [ -h a ]; then
  >     echo a is a symlink
  >     $TESTDIR/readlink.py a
  > elif [ -x a ]; then
  >     echo a is executable
  > else
  >     echo "a has no flags (default for conflicts)"
  > fi
  a has no flags (default for conflicts)

  $ hg update -C 1
  1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved

  $ hg merge --debug
    searching for copies back to rev 1
  resolving manifests
   overwrite None partial False
   ancestor c334dc3be0da local 3574f3e69b1c+ remote 521a1e40188f
   conflicting flags for a
  (n)one, e(x)ec or sym(l)ink? n
   a: remote is newer -> g
  updating: a 1/1 files (100.00%)
  getting a
  1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
  (branch merge, don't forget to commit)


Symlink is other parent, executable is local:

  $ if [ -h a ]; then
  >    echo a is a symlink
  >    $TESTDIR/readlink.py a
  > elif [ -x a ]; then
  >     echo a is executable
  > else
  >     echo "a has no flags (default for conflicts)"
  > fi
  a has no flags (default for conflicts)