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.
#!/usr/bin/env python
"""
Utility for inspecting files in various ways.
This tool is like the collection of tools found in a unix environment but are
cross platform and stable and suitable for our needs in the test suite.
This can be used instead of tools like:
[
dd
find
head
hexdump
ls
md5sum
readlink
sha1sum
stat
tail
test
readlink.py
md5sum.py
"""
import sys, os, errno, re, glob, optparse
def visit(opts, filenames, outfile):
"""Process filenames in the way specified in opts, writing output to
outfile."""
for f in sorted(filenames):
isstdin = f == '-'
if not isstdin and not os.path.lexists(f):
outfile.write('%s: file not found\n' % f)
continue
quiet = opts.quiet and not opts.recurse or isstdin
isdir = os.path.isdir(f)
islink = os.path.islink(f)
isfile = os.path.isfile(f) and not islink
dirfiles = None
content = None
facts = []
if isfile:
if opts.type:
facts.append('file')
if opts.hexdump or opts.dump or opts.md5:
content = file(f, 'rb').read()
elif islink:
if opts.type:
facts.append('link')
content = os.readlink(f)
elif isstdin:
content = sys.stdin.read()
if opts.size:
facts.append('size=%s' % len(content))
elif isdir:
if opts.recurse or opts.type:
dirfiles = glob.glob(f + '/*')
facts.append('directory with %s files' % len(dirfiles))
elif opts.type:
facts.append('type unknown')
if not isstdin:
stat = os.lstat(f)
if opts.size and not isdir:
facts.append('size=%s' % stat.st_size)
if opts.mode and not islink:
facts.append('mode=%o' % (stat.st_mode & 0o777))
if opts.links:
facts.append('links=%s' % stat.st_nlink)
if opts.newer:
# mtime might be in whole seconds so newer file might be same
if stat.st_mtime >= os.stat(opts.newer).st_mtime:
facts.append('newer than %s' % opts.newer)
else:
facts.append('older than %s' % opts.newer)
if opts.md5 and content is not None:
try:
from hashlib import md5
except ImportError:
from md5 import md5
facts.append('md5=%s' % md5(content).hexdigest()[:opts.bytes])
if opts.sha1 and content is not None:
try:
from hashlib import sha1
except ImportError:
from sha import sha as sha1
facts.append('sha1=%s' % sha1(content).hexdigest()[:opts.bytes])
if isstdin:
outfile.write(', '.join(facts) + '\n')
elif facts:
outfile.write('%s: %s\n' % (f, ', '.join(facts)))
elif not quiet:
outfile.write('%s:\n' % f)
if content is not None:
chunk = content
if not islink:
if opts.lines:
if opts.lines >= 0:
chunk = ''.join(chunk.splitlines(True)[:opts.lines])
else:
chunk = ''.join(chunk.splitlines(True)[opts.lines:])
if opts.bytes:
if opts.bytes >= 0:
chunk = chunk[:opts.bytes]
else:
chunk = chunk[opts.bytes:]
if opts.hexdump:
for i in range(0, len(chunk), 16):
s = chunk[i:i + 16]
outfile.write('%04x: %-47s |%s|\n' %
(i, ' '.join('%02x' % ord(c) for c in s),
re.sub('[^ -~]', '.', s)))
if opts.dump:
if not quiet:
outfile.write('>>>\n')
outfile.write(chunk)
if not quiet:
if chunk.endswith('\n'):
outfile.write('<<<\n')
else:
outfile.write('\n<<< no trailing newline\n')
if opts.recurse and dirfiles:
assert not isstdin
visit(opts, dirfiles, outfile)
if __name__ == "__main__":
parser = optparse.OptionParser("%prog [options] [filenames]")
parser.add_option("-t", "--type", action="store_true",
help="show file type (file or directory)")
parser.add_option("-m", "--mode", action="store_true",
help="show file mode")
parser.add_option("-l", "--links", action="store_true",
help="show number of links")
parser.add_option("-s", "--size", action="store_true",
help="show size of file")
parser.add_option("-n", "--newer", action="store",
help="check if file is newer (or same)")
parser.add_option("-r", "--recurse", action="store_true",
help="recurse into directories")
parser.add_option("-S", "--sha1", action="store_true",
help="show sha1 hash of the content")
parser.add_option("-M", "--md5", action="store_true",
help="show md5 hash of the content")
parser.add_option("-D", "--dump", action="store_true",
help="dump file content")
parser.add_option("-H", "--hexdump", action="store_true",
help="hexdump file content")
parser.add_option("-B", "--bytes", type="int",
help="number of characters to dump")
parser.add_option("-L", "--lines", type="int",
help="number of lines to dump")
parser.add_option("-q", "--quiet", action="store_true",
help="no default output")
(opts, filenames) = parser.parse_args(sys.argv[1:])
if not filenames:
filenames = ['-']
visit(opts, filenames, sys.stdout)