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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.
author | Durham Goode <durham@fb.com> |
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date | Mon, 11 May 2015 16:18:28 -0700 |
parents | 3a4d8a6ce432 |
children | 97811ff79647 |
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Mercurial supports a functional language for selecting a set of revisions. The language supports a number of predicates which are joined by infix operators. Parenthesis can be used for grouping. Identifiers such as branch names may need quoting with single or double quotes if they contain characters like ``-`` or if they match one of the predefined predicates. Special characters can be used in quoted identifiers by escaping them, e.g., ``\n`` is interpreted as a newline. To prevent them from being interpreted, strings can be prefixed with ``r``, e.g. ``r'...'``. There is a single prefix operator: ``not x`` Changesets not in x. Short form is ``! x``. These are the supported infix operators: ``x::y`` A DAG range, meaning all changesets that are descendants of x and ancestors of y, including x and y themselves. If the first endpoint is left out, this is equivalent to ``ancestors(y)``, if the second is left out it is equivalent to ``descendants(x)``. An alternative syntax is ``x..y``. ``x:y`` All changesets with revision numbers between x and y, both inclusive. Either endpoint can be left out, they default to 0 and tip. ``x and y`` The intersection of changesets in x and y. Short form is ``x & y``. ``x or y`` The union of changesets in x and y. There are two alternative short forms: ``x | y`` and ``x + y``. ``x - y`` Changesets in x but not in y. ``x^n`` The nth parent of x, n == 0, 1, or 2. For n == 0, x; for n == 1, the first parent of each changeset in x; for n == 2, the second parent of changeset in x. ``x~n`` The nth first ancestor of x; ``x~0`` is x; ``x~3`` is ``x^^^``. There is a single postfix operator: ``x^`` Equivalent to ``x^1``, the first parent of each changeset in x. The following predicates are supported: .. predicatesmarker New predicates (known as "aliases") can be defined, using any combination of existing predicates or other aliases. An alias definition looks like:: <alias> = <definition> in the ``revsetalias`` section of a Mercurial configuration file. Arguments of the form `$1`, `$2`, etc. are substituted from the alias into the definition. For example, :: [revsetalias] h = heads() d($1) = sort($1, date) rs($1, $2) = reverse(sort($1, $2)) defines three aliases, ``h``, ``d``, and ``rs``. ``rs(0:tip, author)`` is exactly equivalent to ``reverse(sort(0:tip, author))``. An infix operator ``##`` can concatenate strings and identifiers into one string. For example:: [revsetalias] issue($1) = grep(r'\bissue[ :]?' ## $1 ## r'\b|\bbug\(' ## $1 ## r'\)') ``issue(1234)`` is equivalent to ``grep(r'\bissue[ :]?1234\b|\bbug\(1234\)')`` in this case. This matches against all of "issue 1234", "issue:1234", "issue1234" and "bug(1234)". All other prefix, infix and postfix operators have lower priority than ``##``. For example, ``$1 ## $2~2`` is equivalent to ``($1 ## $2)~2``. Command line equivalents for :hg:`log`:: -f -> ::. -d x -> date(x) -k x -> keyword(x) -m -> merge() -u x -> user(x) -b x -> branch(x) -P x -> !::x -l x -> limit(expr, x) Some sample queries: - Changesets on the default branch:: hg log -r "branch(default)" - Changesets on the default branch since tag 1.5 (excluding merges):: hg log -r "branch(default) and 1.5:: and not merge()" - Open branch heads:: hg log -r "head() and not closed()" - Changesets between tags 1.3 and 1.5 mentioning "bug" that affect ``hgext/*``:: hg log -r "1.3::1.5 and keyword(bug) and file('hgext/*')" - Changesets committed in May 2008, sorted by user:: hg log -r "sort(date('May 2008'), user)" - Changesets mentioning "bug" or "issue" that are not in a tagged release:: hg log -r "(keyword(bug) or keyword(issue)) and not ancestors(tag())"