tests/test-cat.t

posix: give checklink a fast path that cache the check file and is read only

util.checklink would create a symlink and remove it again. That would sometimes
happen multiple times. Write operations are relatively expensive and give disk
tear and noise for applications monitoring file system activity.

Instead of creating a symlink and deleting it again, just create it once and
leave it in .hg/cache/check-link . If the file exists, just verify that
os.islink reports true. We will assume that this check is as good as symlink
creation not failing.

Note: The symlink left in .hg/cache has to resolve to a file - otherwise 'make
dist' will fail ...

test-symlink-os-yes-fs-no.py does some monkey patching to simulate a platform
without symlink support. The slightly different testing method requires
additional monkeying.

  $ hg init
  $ echo 0 > a
  $ echo 0 > b
  $ hg ci -A -m m
  adding a
  adding b
  $ hg rm a
  $ hg cat a
  0
  $ hg cat --decode a # more tests in test-encode
  0
  $ echo 1 > b
  $ hg ci -m m
  $ echo 2 > b
  $ hg cat -r 0 a
  0
  $ hg cat -r 0 b
  0
  $ hg cat -r 1 a
  a: no such file in rev 7040230c159c
  [1]
  $ hg cat -r 1 b
  1

Test multiple files

  $ echo 3 > c
  $ hg ci -Am addmore c
  $ hg cat b c
  1
  3
  $ hg cat .
  1
  3
  $ hg cat . c
  1
  3

Test fileset

  $ hg cat 'set:not(b) or a'
  3
  $ hg cat 'set:c or b'
  1
  3

  $ mkdir tmp
  $ hg cat --output tmp/HH_%H c
  $ hg cat --output tmp/RR_%R c
  $ hg cat --output tmp/h_%h c
  $ hg cat --output tmp/r_%r c
  $ hg cat --output tmp/%s_s c
  $ hg cat --output tmp/%d%%_d c
  $ hg cat --output tmp/%p_p c
  $ hg log -r . --template "{rev}: {node|short}\n"
  2: 45116003780e
  $ find tmp -type f | sort
  tmp/.%_d
  tmp/HH_45116003780e3678b333fb2c99fa7d559c8457e9
  tmp/RR_2
  tmp/c_p
  tmp/c_s
  tmp/h_45116003780e
  tmp/r_2

Test working directory

  $ echo b-wdir > b
  $ hg cat -r 'wdir()' b
  b-wdir