tests/generate-working-copy-states.py

rebase: turn rebaseskipobsolete on by default

Consider the following use case. User has a set of commits he wants to rebase
onto some destination. Some of the commits in the set are already rebased
and their new versions are now among the ancestors of destination. Traditional
rebase behavior would make the rebase and effectively try to apply older
versions of these commits on top of newer versions, like this:

    a` --> b --> a`

(where both 'a`' and 'a``' are rebased versions of 'a')

This is not desired since 'b' might have made changes to 'a`' which can now
result in merge conflicts. We can avoid these merge conflicts since we know
that 'a``' is an older version of 'a`', so we don't even need to put it on top
of 'b'. Rebaseskipobsolete allows us to do exactly that.

Another undesired effect of a pure rebase is that now 'a`' and 'a``' are both
successors to 'a' which is a divergence. We don't want that and not rebasing
'a' the second time allows to avoid it.

This was not enabled by default initially because we wanted to have some more
experience with it. After months of painless usages in multiple places, we are
confident enough to turn it on my default.

# Helper script used for generating history and working copy files and content.
# The file's name corresponds to its history. The number of changesets can
# be specified on the command line. With 2 changesets, files with names like
# content1_content2_content1-untracked are generated. The first two filename
# segments describe the contents in the two changesets. The third segment
# ("content1-untracked") describes the state in the working copy, i.e.
# the file has content "content1" and is untracked (since it was previously
# tracked, it has been forgotten).
#
# This script generates the filenames and their content, but it's up to the
# caller to tell hg about the state.
#
# There are two subcommands:
#   filelist <numchangesets>
#   state <numchangesets> (<changeset>|wc)
#
# Typical usage:
#
# $ python $TESTDIR/generate-working-copy-states.py state 2 1
# $ hg addremove --similarity 0
# $ hg commit -m 'first'
#
# $ python $TESTDIR/generate-working-copy-states.py state 2 1
# $ hg addremove --similarity 0
# $ hg commit -m 'second'
#
# $ python $TESTDIR/generate-working-copy-states.py state 2 wc
# $ hg addremove --similarity 0
# $ hg forget *_*_*-untracked
# $ rm *_*_missing-*

from __future__ import absolute_import

import os
import sys

# Generates pairs of (filename, contents), where 'contents' is a list
# describing the file's content at each revision (or in the working copy).
# At each revision, it is either None or the file's actual content. When not
# None, it may be either new content or the same content as an earlier
# revisions, so all of (modified,clean,added,removed) can be tested.
def generatestates(maxchangesets, parentcontents):
    depth = len(parentcontents)
    if depth == maxchangesets + 1:
        for tracked in ('untracked', 'tracked'):
            filename = "_".join([(content is None and 'missing' or content) for
                                 content in parentcontents]) + "-" + tracked
            yield (filename, parentcontents)
    else:
        for content in (set([None, 'content' + str(depth + 1)]) |
                      set(parentcontents)):
            for combination in generatestates(maxchangesets,
                                              parentcontents + [content]):
                yield combination

# retrieve the command line arguments
target = sys.argv[1]
maxchangesets = int(sys.argv[2])
if target == 'state':
    depth = sys.argv[3]

# sort to make sure we have stable output
combinations = sorted(generatestates(maxchangesets, []))

# compute file content
content = []
for filename, states in combinations:
    if target == 'filelist':
        print filename
    elif target == 'state':
        if depth == 'wc':
            # Make sure there is content so the file gets written and can be
            # tracked. It will be deleted outside of this script.
            content.append((filename, states[maxchangesets] or 'TOBEDELETED'))
        else:
            content.append((filename, states[int(depth) - 1]))
    else:
        print >> sys.stderr, "unknown target:", target
        sys.exit(1)

# write actual content
for filename, data in content:
    if data is not None:
        f = open(filename, 'wb')
        f.write(data + '\n')
        f.close()
    elif os.path.exists(filename):
        os.remove(filename)