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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.

https://bz.mercurial-scm.org/672

# 0-2-4
#  \ \ \
#   1-3-5
#
# rename in #1, content change in #4.

  $ hg init

  $ touch 1
  $ touch 2
  $ hg commit -Am init  # 0
  adding 1
  adding 2

  $ hg rename 1 1a
  $ hg commit -m rename # 1

  $ hg co -C 0
  1 files updated, 0 files merged, 1 files removed, 0 files unresolved

  $ echo unrelated >> 2
  $ hg ci -m unrelated1 # 2
  created new head

  $ hg merge --debug 1
    unmatched files in other:
     1a
    all copies found (* = to merge, ! = divergent, % = renamed and deleted):
     on remote side:
      src: '1' -> dst: '1a' 
    checking for directory renames
  resolving manifests
   branchmerge: True, force: False, partial: False
   ancestor: 81f4b099af3d, local: c64f439569a9+, remote: c12dcd37c90a
   1: other deleted -> r
  removing 1
   1a: remote created -> g
  getting 1a
  1 files updated, 0 files merged, 1 files removed, 0 files unresolved
  (branch merge, don't forget to commit)

  $ hg ci -m merge1 # 3

  $ hg co -C 2
  1 files updated, 0 files merged, 1 files removed, 0 files unresolved

  $ echo hello >> 1
  $ hg ci -m unrelated2 # 4
  created new head

  $ hg co -C 3
  1 files updated, 0 files merged, 1 files removed, 0 files unresolved

  $ hg merge -y --debug 4
    unmatched files in local:
     1a
    all copies found (* = to merge, ! = divergent, % = renamed and deleted):
     on local side:
      src: '1' -> dst: '1a' *
    checking for directory renames
  resolving manifests
   branchmerge: True, force: False, partial: False
   ancestor: c64f439569a9, local: f4a9cff3cd0b+, remote: 746e9549ea96
   preserving 1a for resolve of 1a
  starting 4 threads for background file closing (?)
   1a: local copied/moved from 1 -> m (premerge)
  picked tool ':merge' for 1a (binary False symlink False changedelete False)
  merging 1a and 1 to 1a
  my 1a@f4a9cff3cd0b+ other 1@746e9549ea96 ancestor 1@c64f439569a9
   premerge successful
  0 files updated, 1 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
  (branch merge, don't forget to commit)

  $ hg co -C 4
  1 files updated, 0 files merged, 1 files removed, 0 files unresolved

  $ hg merge -y --debug 3
    unmatched files in other:
     1a
    all copies found (* = to merge, ! = divergent, % = renamed and deleted):
     on remote side:
      src: '1' -> dst: '1a' *
    checking for directory renames
  resolving manifests
   branchmerge: True, force: False, partial: False
   ancestor: c64f439569a9, local: 746e9549ea96+, remote: f4a9cff3cd0b
   preserving 1 for resolve of 1a
  removing 1
  starting 4 threads for background file closing (?)
   1a: remote moved from 1 -> m (premerge)
  picked tool ':merge' for 1a (binary False symlink False changedelete False)
  merging 1 and 1a to 1a
  my 1a@746e9549ea96+ other 1a@f4a9cff3cd0b ancestor 1@c64f439569a9
   premerge successful
  0 files updated, 1 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
  (branch merge, don't forget to commit)