view tests/test-mq-qimport-fail-cleanup.t @ 25881:9de443515f1d stable

help: scripting help topic

There are a lot of non-human consumers of Mercurial. And the challenges
and considerations for machines consuming Mercurial is significantly
different from what humans face.

I think there are enough special considerations around how machines
consume Mercurial that a dedicated help topic is warranted. I concede
the audience for this topic is probably small compared to the general
audience. However, lots of normal Mercurial users do things like create
one-off shell scripts for common workflows that I think this is useful
enough to be in the install (as opposed to, say, a wiki page - which
most users will likely never find).

This text is by no means perfect. But you have to start somewhere. I
think I did cover the important parts, though.

Failed qimport of patches from files should cleanup by recording successfully
imported patches in series file.

  $ echo "[extensions]" >> $HGRCPATH
  $ echo "mq=" >> $HGRCPATH
  $ hg init repo
  $ cd repo
  $ echo a > a
  $ hg ci -Am'add a'
  adding a
  $ cat >b.patch<<EOF
  > diff --git a/a b/a
  > --- a/a
  > +++ b/a
  > @@ -1,1 +1,2 @@
  >  a
  > +b
  > EOF

empty series

  $ hg qseries

qimport valid patch followed by invalid patch

  $ hg qimport b.patch fakepatch
  adding b.patch to series file
  abort: unable to read file fakepatch
  [255]

valid patches before fail added to series

  $ hg qseries
  b.patch

  $ hg pull -q -r 0 . # update phase
  $ hg qimport -r 0
  abort: revision 0 is not mutable
  (see "hg help phases" for details)
  [255]

  $ cd ..