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config: add option to control creation of empty successors during rewrite

The default for many history-rewriting commands (e.g. rebase and absorb) is
that changesets which would become empty are not created in the target branch.
This makes sense if the source branch consists of small fix-up changes. For
more advanced workflows that make heavy use of history-editing to create
curated patch series, dropping empty changesets is not as important or even
undesirable.

Some users want to keep the meta-history, e.g. to make finding comments in a
code review tool easier or to avoid that divergent bookmarks are created. For
that, obsmarkers from the (to-be) empty changeset to the changeset(s) that
already made the changes should be added. If a to-be empty changeset is pruned
without a successor, adding the obsmarkers is hard because the changeset has to
be found within the hidden part of the history.

If rebasing in TortoiseHg, it’s easy to miss the fact that the to-be empty
changeset was pruned. An empty changeset will function as a reminder that
obsmarkers should be added.

Martin von Zweigbergk mentioned another advantage. Stripping the successor will
de-obsolete the predecessor. If no (empty) successor is created, this won’t be
possible.

In the future, we may want to consider other behaviors, like e.g. creating the
empty successor, but pruning it right away. Therefore this configuration
accepts 'skip' and 'keep' instead of being a boolean configuration.

#!/bin/sh

# Script to get stable diff output on any platform.
#
# Output of this script is almost equivalent to GNU diff with "-Nru".
#
# Use this script as "hg pdiff" via extdiff extension with preparation
# below in test scripts:
#
#   $ cat >> $HGRCPATH <<EOF
#   > [extdiff]
#   > pdiff = sh "$RUNTESTDIR/pdiff"
#   > EOF

filediff(){
    # USAGE: filediff file1 file2 [header]

    # compare with /dev/null if file doesn't exist (as "-N" option)
    file1="$1"
    if test ! -f "$file1"; then
        file1=/dev/null
    fi
    file2="$2"
    if test ! -f "$file2"; then
        file2=/dev/null
    fi

    if cmp -s "$file1" "$file2" 2> /dev/null; then
        # Return immediately, because comparison isn't needed. This
        # also avoids redundant message of diff like "No differences
        # encountered" (on Solaris)
        return
    fi

    if test -n "$3"; then
        # show header only in recursive case
        echo "$3"
    fi

    # replace "/dev/null" by corresponded filename (as "-N" option)
    diff -u "$file1" "$file2" |
    sed "s@^--- /dev/null\(.*\)\$@--- $1\1@" |
    sed "s@^\+\+\+ /dev/null\(.*\)\$@+++ $2\1@"

    # in this case, files differ from each other
    return 1
}

if test -d "$1" -o -d "$2"; then
    # ensure comparison in dictionary order
    (
    if test -d "$1"; then (cd "$1" && find . -type f); fi
    if test -d "$2"; then (cd "$2" && find . -type f); fi
    ) |
    sed 's@^\./@@g' | sort | uniq |
    while read file; do
        filediff "$1/$file" "$2/$file" "diff -Nru $1/$file $2/$file"
    done

    # TODO: there is no portable way for current while-read based
    # implementation to return 1 at detecting changes.
    #
    # On bash and dash, assignment to variable inside while-block
    # doesn't affect outside, because inside while-block is executed
    # in sub-shell. BTW, it affects outside while-block on ksh (as sh
    # on Solaris).
else
    filediff "$1" "$2"
fi