view tests/test-empty-group.t @ 29859:a1092e2d70a3

help: internals topic for wire protocol

The Mercurial wire protocol is under-documented. This includes a lack
of source docstrings and comments as well as pages on the official
wiki.

This patch adds the beginnings of "internals" documentation on the
wire protocol.

The documentation should have nearly complete coverage on the
lower-level parts of the protocol, such as the different transport
mechanims, how commands and arguments are sent, capabilities, and,
of course, the commands themselves.

As part of writing this documentation, I discovered a number of
deficiencies in the protocol and bugs in the implementation. I've
started sending patches for some of the issues. I hope to send a lot
more.

This patch starts with the scaffolding for a new internals page.

#  A          B
#
#  3  4       3
#  |\/|       |\
#  |/\|       | \
#  1  2       1  2
#  \ /        \ /
#   0          0
#
# if the result of the merge of 1 and 2
# is the same in 3 and 4, no new manifest
# will be created and the manifest group
# will be empty during the pull
#
# (plus we test a failure where outgoing
# wrongly reported the number of csets)

  $ hg init a
  $ cd a
  $ touch init
  $ hg ci -A -m 0
  adding init
  $ touch x y
  $ hg ci -A -m 1
  adding x
  adding y

  $ hg update 0
  0 files updated, 0 files merged, 2 files removed, 0 files unresolved
  $ touch x y
  $ hg ci -A -m 2
  adding x
  adding y
  created new head

  $ hg merge 1
  0 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
  (branch merge, don't forget to commit)
  $ hg ci -A -m m1

  $ hg update -C 1
  0 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
  $ hg merge 2
  0 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
  (branch merge, don't forget to commit)
  $ hg ci -A -m m2
  created new head

  $ cd ..

  $ hg clone -r 3 a b
  adding changesets
  adding manifests
  adding file changes
  added 4 changesets with 3 changes to 3 files
  updating to branch default
  3 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved

  $ hg clone -r 4 a c
  adding changesets
  adding manifests
  adding file changes
  added 4 changesets with 3 changes to 3 files
  updating to branch default
  3 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved

  $ hg -R a outgoing b
  comparing with b
  searching for changes
  changeset:   4:1ec3c74fc0e0
  tag:         tip
  parent:      1:79f9e10cd04e
  parent:      2:8e1bb01c1a24
  user:        test
  date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
  summary:     m2
  
  $ hg -R a outgoing c
  comparing with c
  searching for changes
  changeset:   3:d15a0c284984
  parent:      2:8e1bb01c1a24
  parent:      1:79f9e10cd04e
  user:        test
  date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
  summary:     m1
  
  $ hg -R b outgoing c
  comparing with c
  searching for changes
  changeset:   3:d15a0c284984
  tag:         tip
  parent:      2:8e1bb01c1a24
  parent:      1:79f9e10cd04e
  user:        test
  date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
  summary:     m1
  
  $ hg -R c outgoing b
  comparing with b
  searching for changes
  changeset:   3:1ec3c74fc0e0
  tag:         tip
  parent:      1:79f9e10cd04e
  parent:      2:8e1bb01c1a24
  user:        test
  date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
  summary:     m2
  

  $ hg -R b pull a
  pulling from a
  searching for changes
  adding changesets
  adding manifests
  adding file changes
  added 1 changesets with 0 changes to 0 files (+1 heads)
  (run 'hg heads' to see heads, 'hg merge' to merge)

  $ hg -R c pull a
  pulling from a
  searching for changes
  adding changesets
  adding manifests
  adding file changes
  added 1 changesets with 0 changes to 0 files (+1 heads)
  (run 'hg heads' to see heads, 'hg merge' to merge)