view tests/test-cat.t @ 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.

  $ 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