ui: add special-purpose atexit functionality
In spite of its longstanding use, Python's built-in atexit code is
not suitable for Mercurial's purposes, for several reasons:
* Handlers run after application code has finished.
* Because of this, the code that runs handlers swallows exceptions
(since there's no possible stacktrace to associate errors with).
If we're lucky, we'll get something spat out to stderr (if stderr
still works), which of course isn't any use in a big deployment
where it's important that exceptions get logged and aggregated.
* Mercurial's current atexit handlers make unfortunate assumptions
about process state (specifically stdio) that, coupled with the
above problems, make it impossible to deal with certain categories
of error (try "hg status > /dev/full" on a Linux box).
* In Python 3, the atexit implementation is completely hidden, so
we can't hijack the platform's atexit code to run handlers at a
time of our choosing.
As a result, here's a perfectly cromulent atexit-like implementation
over which we have control. This lets us decide exactly when the
handlers run (after each request has completed), and control what
the process state is when that occurs (and afterwards).
$ cat >> $HGRCPATH << EOF
> [extensions]
> show =
> EOF
No arguments shows available views
$ hg init empty
$ cd empty
$ hg show
available views:
bookmarks -- bookmarks and their associated changeset
underway -- changesets that aren't finished
abort: no view requested
(use "hg show VIEW" to choose a view)
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`hg help show` prints available views
$ hg help show
hg show VIEW
show various repository information
A requested view of repository data is displayed.
If no view is requested, the list of available views is shown and the
command aborts.
Note:
There are no backwards compatibility guarantees for the output of this
command. Output may change in any future Mercurial release.
Consumers wanting stable command output should specify a template via
"-T/--template".
List of available views:
bookmarks bookmarks and their associated changeset
underway changesets that aren't finished
(use 'hg help -e show' to show help for the show extension)
options:
-T --template TEMPLATE display with template
(some details hidden, use --verbose to show complete help)
Unknown view prints error
$ hg show badview
abort: unknown view: badview
(run "hg show" to see available views)
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HGPLAIN results in abort
$ HGPLAIN=1 hg show bookmarks
abort: must specify a template in plain mode
(invoke with -T/--template to control output format)
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But not if a template is specified
$ HGPLAIN=1 hg show bookmarks -T '{bookmark}\n'
(no bookmarks set)
$ cd ..
bookmarks view with no bookmarks prints empty message
$ hg init books
$ cd books
$ touch f0
$ hg -q commit -A -m initial
$ hg show bookmarks
(no bookmarks set)
bookmarks view shows bookmarks in an aligned table
$ echo book1 > f0
$ hg commit -m 'commit for book1'
$ echo book2 > f0
$ hg commit -m 'commit for book2'
$ hg bookmark -r 1 book1
$ hg bookmark a-longer-bookmark
$ hg show bookmarks
* a-longer-bookmark 7b570
book1 b757f
A custom bookmarks template works
$ hg show bookmarks -T '{node} {bookmark} {active}\n'
7b5709ab64cbc34da9b4367b64afff47f2c4ee83 a-longer-bookmark True
b757f780b8ffd71267c6ccb32e0882d9d32a8cc0 book1 False
bookmarks JSON works
$ hg show bookmarks -T json
[
{
"active": true,
"bookmark": "a-longer-bookmark",
"longestbookmarklen": 17,
"node": "7b5709ab64cbc34da9b4367b64afff47f2c4ee83"
},
{
"active": false,
"bookmark": "book1",
"longestbookmarklen": 17,
"node": "b757f780b8ffd71267c6ccb32e0882d9d32a8cc0"
}
]
JSON works with no bookmarks
$ hg book -d a-longer-bookmark
$ hg book -d book1
$ hg show bookmarks -T json
[
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$ cd ..