contrib/hg-test-mode.el

merge: minimize conflicts when common base is not shown (issue4447)

Previously, two changes that were nearly, but not quite, identical would result
in large merge conflict regions that looked very similar, and were thus very
confusing to users, and lead people used to other source control systems to
claim that "mercurial's merge algorithms suck". In the relatively common case
of a new file being introduced in two branches with very slight modifications,
the old behavior would show the entire file as a conflict, and it would be very
difficult for a user to determine what was going on.

In the past, mercurial attempted to solve this with a "very smart" algorithm
that would find all common lines, but this has significant problems as
described in 2ea6d906cf9b.

Instead, we use a "very dumb" algorithm introduced in the previous patch that
simply matches lines at the periphery of conflict regions. This minimizes most
conflict regions well, though there may still be some degenerate edge cases,
like small modification to the beginning and end of a large file.

;; hg-test-mode.el - Major mode for editing Mercurial tests
;;
;; Copyright 2014 Matt Mackall <[e-mail]>
;; "I have no idea what I'm doing"
;;
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;; GNU General Public License version 2 or any later version.
;;
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;;
;; (if (file-exists-p "~/hg/contrib/hg-test-mode.el")
;;    (load "~/hg/contrib/hg-test-mode.el"))

(defvar hg-test-mode-hook nil)

(defvar hg-test-mode-map
  (let ((map (make-keymap)))
    (define-key map "\C-j" 'newline-and-indent)
    map)
  "Keymap for hg test major mode")

(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.t\\'" . hg-test-mode))

(defconst hg-test-font-lock-keywords-1
  (list
   '("^  \\(\\$\\|>>>\\) " 1 font-lock-builtin-face)
   '("^  \\(>\\|\\.\\.\\.\\) " 1 font-lock-constant-face)
   '("^  \\([[][0-9]+[]]\\)$" 1 font-lock-warning-face)
   '("^  \\(.*?\\)\\(\\( [(][-a-z]+[)]\\)*\\)$" 1 font-lock-string-face)
   '("\\$?\\(HG\\|TEST\\)\\w+=?" . font-lock-variable-name-face)
   '("^  \\(.*?\\)\\(\\( [(][-a-z]+[)]\\)+\\)$" 2 font-lock-type-face)
   '("^#.*" . font-lock-preprocessor-face)
   '("^\\([^ ].*\\)$" 1 font-lock-comment-face)
   )
  "Minimal highlighting expressions for hg-test mode")

(defvar hg-test-font-lock-keywords hg-test-font-lock-keywords-1
  "Default highlighting expressions for hg-test mode")

(defvar hg-test-mode-syntax-table
  (let ((st (make-syntax-table)))
    (modify-syntax-entry ?\" "w" st) ;; disable standard quoting
    st)
"Syntax table for hg-test mode")

(defun hg-test-mode ()
  (interactive)
  (kill-all-local-variables)
  (use-local-map hg-test-mode-map)
  (set-syntax-table hg-test-mode-syntax-table)
  (set (make-local-variable 'font-lock-defaults) '(hg-test-font-lock-keywords))
  (setq major-mode 'hg-test-mode)
  (setq mode-name "hg-test")
  (run-hooks 'hg-test-mode-hook))

(provide 'hg-test-mode)