view hgext/children.py @ 13158:9e7e24052745

merge: fast-forward merge with descendant

issue2538 gives a case where a changeset is merged with its child (which is on
another branch), and to my surprise the result is a real merge with two
parents, not just a "fast forward" "merge" with only the child as parent.

That is essentially the same as issue619.

Is the existing behaviour as intended and correct?

Or is the following fix correct?

Some extra "created new head" pops up with this fix, but it seems to me like
they could be considered correct. The old branch head has been superseeded by
changes on the other branch, and when the changes on the other branch is merged
back to the branch it will introduce a new head not directly related to the
previous branch head.

(I guess the intention with existing behaviour could be to ensure that the
changesets on the branch are directly connected and that no new heads pops up
on merges.)

# Mercurial extension to provide the 'hg children' command
#
# Copyright 2007 by Intevation GmbH <[e-mail]>
#
# Author(s):
# Thomas Arendsen Hein <[e-mail]>
#
# This software may be used and distributed according to the terms of the
# GNU General Public License version 2 or any later version.

'''command to display child changesets'''

from mercurial import cmdutil
from mercurial.commands import templateopts
from mercurial.i18n import _


def children(ui, repo, file_=None, **opts):
    """show the children of the given or working directory revision

    Print the children of the working directory's revisions. If a
    revision is given via -r/--rev, the children of that revision will
    be printed. If a file argument is given, revision in which the
    file was last changed (after the working directory revision or the
    argument to --rev if given) is printed.
    """
    rev = opts.get('rev')
    if file_:
        ctx = repo.filectx(file_, changeid=rev)
    else:
        ctx = repo[rev]

    displayer = cmdutil.show_changeset(ui, repo, opts)
    for cctx in ctx.children():
        displayer.show(cctx)
    displayer.close()

cmdtable = {
    "children":
        (children,
         [('r', 'rev', '',
           _('show children of the specified revision'), _('REV')),
         ] + templateopts,
         _('hg children [-r REV] [FILE]')),
}