tests/fakepatchtime.py

config: document the purpose of the `format` config section

The config section now have a top level documentation to clarify its intend and
usage. In particular, user are now explain when the option are taken in account
and how to convert repository.

There are an handful of experimental options in this section that does not match
its definition. They should be relocated to other section before getting out of
experimental. (see next changeset for one example).

# extension to emulate invoking 'patch.internalpatch()' at the time
# specified by '[fakepatchtime] fakenow'

from __future__ import absolute_import

from mercurial import (
    extensions,
    patch as patchmod,
    registrar,
)
from mercurial.utils import dateutil

configtable = {}
configitem = registrar.configitem(configtable)

configitem(b'fakepatchtime', b'fakenow',
    default=None,
)

def internalpatch(orig, ui, repo, patchobj, strip,
                  prefix=b'', files=None,
                  eolmode=b'strict', similarity=0):
    if files is None:
        files = set()
    r = orig(ui, repo, patchobj, strip,
             prefix=prefix, files=files,
             eolmode=eolmode, similarity=similarity)

    fakenow = ui.config(b'fakepatchtime', b'fakenow')
    if fakenow:
        # parsing 'fakenow' in YYYYmmddHHMM format makes comparison between
        # 'fakenow' value and 'touch -t YYYYmmddHHMM' argument easy
        fakenow = dateutil.parsedate(fakenow, [b'%Y%m%d%H%M'])[0]
        for f in files:
            repo.wvfs.utime(f, (fakenow, fakenow))

    return r

def extsetup(ui):
    extensions.wrapfunction(patchmod, 'internalpatch', internalpatch)