view contrib/editmerge @ 25018:93e015a3d1ea

commit: add ui.allowemptycommit config option

This adds a config flag that enables a user to make empty commits.
This is useful in a number of cases.

For instance, automation that creates release branches via
bookmarks may want to make empty commits to that release bookmark so that it
can't be fast-forwarded and so it can record information about the release
bookmark's creation. This is already possible with named branches, so making it
possible for bookmarks makes sense.

Another case we've wanted it is for mirroring repositories into Mercurial. We
have automation that syncs commits into hg by running things from the command
line. The ability to produce empty commits is useful for syncing unusual commits
from other VCS's.

In general, allowing the user to create the DAG as they see fit seems useful,
and when I mentioned this in IRC more than one person piped up and said they
were already hacking around this limitation by using mq, import, and
commit-dummy-change-then-amend-the-content-away style solutions.

#!/usr/bin/env bash
# A simple script for opening merge conflicts in the editor.
# Use the following Mercurial settings to enable it.
#
# [ui]
# merge = editmerge
#
# [merge-tools]
# editmerge.args=$output
# editmerge.check=changed
# editmerge.premerge=keep

FILE=$1

getlines() {
  grep -n "<<<<<<" $FILE | cut -f1 -d:
}

# editor preference loosely based on http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/editor
# hg showconfig is at the bottom though, since it's slow to run (0.15 seconds)
ED=$HGEDITOR
if [ "$ED" = "" ] ; then
  ED=$VISUAL
fi
if [ "$ED" = "" ] ; then
  ED=$EDITOR
fi
if [ "$ED" = "" ] ; then
  ED=$(hg showconfig ui.editor)
fi
if [ "$ED" = "" ] ; then
  echo "merge failed - unable to find editor"
  exit 1
fi

if [ "$ED" = "emacs" ] || [ "$ED" = "nano" ] || [ "$ED" = "vim" ] ; then
  FIRSTLINE=$(getlines | head -n 1)
  PREVIOUSLINE=""

  # open the editor to the first conflict until there are no more
  # or the user stops editing the file
  while [ ! "$FIRSTLINE" = "" ] && [ ! "$FIRSTLINE" = "$PREVIOUSLINE" ] ; do
    $ED +$FIRSTLINE $FILE
    PREVIOUSLINE=$FIRSTLINE
    FIRSTLINE=$(getlines | head -n 1)
  done
else
  $ED $FILE
fi

# get the line numbers of the remaining conflicts
CONFLICTS=$(getlines | sed ':a;N;$!ba;s/\n/, /g')
if [ ! "$CONFLICTS" = "" ] ; then
  echo "merge failed - resolve the conflicts (line $CONFLICTS) then use 'hg resolve --mark'"
  exit 1
fi

exit 0