view tests/test-pager.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.

  $ cat >> fakepager.py <<EOF
  > import sys
  > for line in sys.stdin:
  >     sys.stdout.write('paged! %r\n' % line)
  > EOF

Enable ui.formatted because pager won't fire without it, and set up
pager and tell it to use our fake pager that lets us see when the
pager was running.
  $ cat >> $HGRCPATH <<EOF
  > [ui]
  > formatted = yes
  > [extensions]
  > pager=
  > [pager]
  > pager = python $TESTTMP/fakepager.py
  > EOF

  $ hg init repo
  $ cd repo
  $ echo a >> a
  $ hg add a
  $ hg ci -m 'add a'
  $ for x in `python $TESTDIR/seq.py 1 10`; do
  >   echo a $x >> a
  >   hg ci -m "modify a $x"
  > done

By default diff and log are paged, but summary is not:

  $ hg diff -c 2 --pager=yes
  paged! 'diff -r f4be7687d414 -r bce265549556 a\n'
  paged! '--- a/a\tThu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000\n'
  paged! '+++ b/a\tThu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000\n'
  paged! '@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@\n'
  paged! ' a\n'
  paged! ' a 1\n'
  paged! '+a 2\n'

  $ hg log --limit 2
  paged! 'changeset:   10:46106edeeb38\n'
  paged! 'tag:         tip\n'
  paged! 'user:        test\n'
  paged! 'date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000\n'
  paged! 'summary:     modify a 10\n'
  paged! '\n'
  paged! 'changeset:   9:6dd8ea7dd621\n'
  paged! 'user:        test\n'
  paged! 'date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000\n'
  paged! 'summary:     modify a 9\n'
  paged! '\n'

  $ hg summary
  parent: 10:46106edeeb38 tip
   modify a 10
  branch: default
  commit: (clean)
  update: (current)
  phases: 11 draft

We can enable the pager on summary:

  $ hg --config pager.attend-summary=yes summary
  paged! 'parent: 10:46106edeeb38 tip\n'
  paged! ' modify a 10\n'
  paged! 'branch: default\n'
  paged! 'commit: (clean)\n'
  paged! 'update: (current)\n'
  paged! 'phases: 11 draft\n'

If we completely change the attend list that's respected:

  $ hg --config pager.attend-diff=no diff -c 2
  diff -r f4be7687d414 -r bce265549556 a
  --- a/a	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
  +++ b/a	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
  @@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
   a
   a 1
  +a 2

  $ hg --config pager.attend=summary diff -c 2
  diff -r f4be7687d414 -r bce265549556 a
  --- a/a	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
  +++ b/a	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
  @@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
   a
   a 1
  +a 2

If 'log' is in attend, then 'history' should also be paged:
  $ hg history --limit 2 --config pager.attend=log
  paged! 'changeset:   10:46106edeeb38\n'
  paged! 'tag:         tip\n'
  paged! 'user:        test\n'
  paged! 'date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000\n'
  paged! 'summary:     modify a 10\n'
  paged! '\n'
  paged! 'changeset:   9:6dd8ea7dd621\n'
  paged! 'user:        test\n'
  paged! 'date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000\n'
  paged! 'summary:     modify a 9\n'
  paged! '\n'

Possible bug: history is explicitly ignored in pager config, but
because log is in the attend list it still gets pager treatment.

  $ hg history --limit 2 --config pager.attend=log \
  >   --config pager.ignore=history
  paged! 'changeset:   10:46106edeeb38\n'
  paged! 'tag:         tip\n'
  paged! 'user:        test\n'
  paged! 'date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000\n'
  paged! 'summary:     modify a 10\n'
  paged! '\n'
  paged! 'changeset:   9:6dd8ea7dd621\n'
  paged! 'user:        test\n'
  paged! 'date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000\n'
  paged! 'summary:     modify a 9\n'
  paged! '\n'

Possible bug: history is explicitly marked as attend-history=no, but
it doesn't fail to get paged because log is still in the attend list.

  $ hg history --limit 2 --config pager.attend-history=no
  paged! 'changeset:   10:46106edeeb38\n'
  paged! 'tag:         tip\n'
  paged! 'user:        test\n'
  paged! 'date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000\n'
  paged! 'summary:     modify a 10\n'
  paged! '\n'
  paged! 'changeset:   9:6dd8ea7dd621\n'
  paged! 'user:        test\n'
  paged! 'date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000\n'
  paged! 'summary:     modify a 9\n'
  paged! '\n'

Possible bug: disabling pager for log but enabling it for history
doesn't result in history being paged.

  $ hg history --limit 2 --config pager.attend-log=no \
  > --config pager.attend-history=yes
  changeset:   10:46106edeeb38
  tag:         tip
  user:        test
  date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
  summary:     modify a 10
  
  changeset:   9:6dd8ea7dd621
  user:        test
  date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
  summary:     modify a 9
  

Pager with color enabled allows colors to come through by default,
even though stdout is no longer a tty.
  $ cat >> $HGRCPATH <<EOF
  > [extensions]
  > color=
  > [color]
  > mode = ansi
  > EOF
  $ hg log --limit 3
  paged! '\x1b[0;33mchangeset:   10:46106edeeb38\x1b[0m\n'
  paged! 'tag:         tip\n'
  paged! 'user:        test\n'
  paged! 'date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000\n'
  paged! 'summary:     modify a 10\n'
  paged! '\n'
  paged! '\x1b[0;33mchangeset:   9:6dd8ea7dd621\x1b[0m\n'
  paged! 'user:        test\n'
  paged! 'date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000\n'
  paged! 'summary:     modify a 9\n'
  paged! '\n'
  paged! '\x1b[0;33mchangeset:   8:cff05a6312fe\x1b[0m\n'
  paged! 'user:        test\n'
  paged! 'date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000\n'
  paged! 'summary:     modify a 8\n'
  paged! '\n'

Pager works with shell aliases.

  $ cat >> $HGRCPATH <<EOF
  > [alias]
  > echoa = !echo a
  > EOF

  $ hg echoa
  a
  $ hg --config pager.attend-echoa=yes echoa
  paged! 'a\n'

Pager works with hg aliases including environment variables.

  $ cat >> $HGRCPATH <<'EOF'
  > [alias]
  > printa = log -T "$A\n" -r 0
  > EOF

  $ A=1 hg --config pager.attend-printa=yes printa
  paged! '1\n'
  $ A=2 hg --config pager.attend-printa=yes printa
  paged! '2\n'

Pager should not override the exit code of other commands

  $ cat >> $TESTTMP/fortytwo.py <<'EOF'
  > from mercurial import cmdutil, commands
  > cmdtable = {}
  > command = cmdutil.command(cmdtable)
  > @command('fortytwo', [], 'fortytwo', norepo=True)
  > def fortytwo(ui, *opts):
  >     ui.write('42\n')
  >     return 42
  > EOF

  $ cat >> $HGRCPATH <<'EOF'
  > [extensions]
  > fortytwo = $TESTTMP/fortytwo.py
  > EOF

  $ hg fortytwo --pager=on
  paged! '42\n'
  [42]