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.
# Copyright (C) 2015 - Mike Edgar <adgar@google.com>
#
# This extension enables removal of file content at a given revision,
# rewriting the data/metadata of successive revisions to preserve revision log
# integrity.
"""erase file content at a given revision
The censor command instructs Mercurial to erase all content of a file at a given
revision *without updating the changeset hash.* This allows existing history to
remain valid while preventing future clones/pulls from receiving the erased
data.
Typical uses for censor are due to security or legal requirements, including::
* Passwords, private keys, cryptographic material
* Licensed data/code/libraries for which the license has expired
* Personally Identifiable Information or other private data
Censored nodes can interrupt mercurial's typical operation whenever the excised
data needs to be materialized. Some commands, like ``hg cat``/``hg revert``,
simply fail when asked to produce censored data. Others, like ``hg verify`` and
``hg update``, must be capable of tolerating censored data to continue to
function in a meaningful way. Such commands only tolerate censored file
revisions if they are allowed by the "censor.policy=ignore" config option.
"""
from mercurial.node import short
from mercurial import cmdutil, error, filelog, revlog, scmutil, util
from mercurial.i18n import _
from mercurial import lock as lockmod
cmdtable = {}
command = cmdutil.command(cmdtable)
# Note for extension authors: ONLY specify testedwith = 'internal' for
# extensions which SHIP WITH MERCURIAL. Non-mainline extensions should
# be specifying the version(s) of Mercurial they are tested with, or
# leave the attribute unspecified.
testedwith = 'internal'
@command('censor',
[('r', 'rev', '', _('censor file from specified revision'), _('REV')),
('t', 'tombstone', '', _('replacement tombstone data'), _('TEXT'))],
_('-r REV [-t TEXT] [FILE]'))
def censor(ui, repo, path, rev='', tombstone='', **opts):
wlock = lock = None
try:
wlock = repo.wlock()
lock = repo.lock()
return _docensor(ui, repo, path, rev, tombstone, **opts)
finally:
lockmod.release(lock, wlock)
def _docensor(ui, repo, path, rev='', tombstone='', **opts):
if not path:
raise error.Abort(_('must specify file path to censor'))
if not rev:
raise error.Abort(_('must specify revision to censor'))
wctx = repo[None]
m = scmutil.match(wctx, (path,))
if m.anypats() or len(m.files()) != 1:
raise error.Abort(_('can only specify an explicit filename'))
path = m.files()[0]
flog = repo.file(path)
if not len(flog):
raise error.Abort(_('cannot censor file with no history'))
rev = scmutil.revsingle(repo, rev, rev).rev()
try:
ctx = repo[rev]
except KeyError:
raise error.Abort(_('invalid revision identifier %s') % rev)
try:
fctx = ctx.filectx(path)
except error.LookupError:
raise error.Abort(_('file does not exist at revision %s') % rev)
fnode = fctx.filenode()
headctxs = [repo[c] for c in repo.heads()]
heads = [c for c in headctxs if path in c and c.filenode(path) == fnode]
if heads:
headlist = ', '.join([short(c.node()) for c in heads])
raise error.Abort(_('cannot censor file in heads (%s)') % headlist,
hint=_('clean/delete and commit first'))
wp = wctx.parents()
if ctx.node() in [p.node() for p in wp]:
raise error.Abort(_('cannot censor working directory'),
hint=_('clean/delete/update first'))
flogv = flog.version & 0xFFFF
if flogv != revlog.REVLOGNG:
raise error.Abort(
_('censor does not support revlog version %d') % (flogv,))
tombstone = filelog.packmeta({"censored": tombstone}, "")
crev = fctx.filerev()
if len(tombstone) > flog.rawsize(crev):
raise error.Abort(_(
'censor tombstone must be no longer than censored data'))
# Using two files instead of one makes it easy to rewrite entry-by-entry
idxread = repo.svfs(flog.indexfile, 'r')
idxwrite = repo.svfs(flog.indexfile, 'wb', atomictemp=True)
if flog.version & revlog.REVLOGNGINLINEDATA:
dataread, datawrite = idxread, idxwrite
else:
dataread = repo.svfs(flog.datafile, 'r')
datawrite = repo.svfs(flog.datafile, 'wb', atomictemp=True)
# Copy all revlog data up to the entry to be censored.
rio = revlog.revlogio()
offset = flog.start(crev)
for chunk in util.filechunkiter(idxread, limit=crev * rio.size):
idxwrite.write(chunk)
for chunk in util.filechunkiter(dataread, limit=offset):
datawrite.write(chunk)
def rewriteindex(r, newoffs, newdata=None):
"""Rewrite the index entry with a new data offset and optional new data.
The newdata argument, if given, is a tuple of three positive integers:
(new compressed, new uncompressed, added flag bits).
"""
offlags, comp, uncomp, base, link, p1, p2, nodeid = flog.index[r]
flags = revlog.gettype(offlags)
if newdata:
comp, uncomp, nflags = newdata
flags |= nflags
offlags = revlog.offset_type(newoffs, flags)
e = (offlags, comp, uncomp, r, link, p1, p2, nodeid)
idxwrite.write(rio.packentry(e, None, flog.version, r))
idxread.seek(rio.size, 1)
def rewrite(r, offs, data, nflags=revlog.REVIDX_DEFAULT_FLAGS):
"""Write the given full text to the filelog with the given data offset.
Returns:
The integer number of data bytes written, for tracking data offsets.
"""
flag, compdata = flog.compress(data)
newcomp = len(flag) + len(compdata)
rewriteindex(r, offs, (newcomp, len(data), nflags))
datawrite.write(flag)
datawrite.write(compdata)
dataread.seek(flog.length(r), 1)
return newcomp
# Rewrite censored revlog entry with (padded) tombstone data.
pad = ' ' * (flog.rawsize(crev) - len(tombstone))
offset += rewrite(crev, offset, tombstone + pad, revlog.REVIDX_ISCENSORED)
# Rewrite all following filelog revisions fixing up offsets and deltas.
for srev in xrange(crev + 1, len(flog)):
if crev in flog.parentrevs(srev):
# Immediate children of censored node must be re-added as fulltext.
try:
revdata = flog.revision(srev)
except error.CensoredNodeError as e:
revdata = e.tombstone
dlen = rewrite(srev, offset, revdata)
else:
# Copy any other revision data verbatim after fixing up the offset.
rewriteindex(srev, offset)
dlen = flog.length(srev)
for chunk in util.filechunkiter(dataread, limit=dlen):
datawrite.write(chunk)
offset += dlen
idxread.close()
idxwrite.close()
if dataread is not idxread:
dataread.close()
datawrite.close()