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.
$ heads()
> {
> hg heads --template '{rev}: {desc|firstline|strip} ({branches})\n' "$@"
> }
$ hg init a
$ cd a
$ echo 'root' >root
$ hg add root
$ hg commit -m "Adding root node"
$ heads
0: Adding root node ()
-------
$ heads .
0: Adding root node ()
=======
$ echo 'a' >a
$ hg add a
$ hg branch a
marked working directory as branch a
(branches are permanent and global, did you want a bookmark?)
$ hg commit -m "Adding a branch"
$ heads
1: Adding a branch (a)
0: Adding root node ()
-------
$ heads .
1: Adding a branch (a)
=======
$ hg update -C 0
0 files updated, 0 files merged, 1 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ echo 'b' >b
$ hg add b
$ hg branch b
marked working directory as branch b
$ hg commit -m "Adding b branch"
$ heads
2: Adding b branch (b)
1: Adding a branch (a)
0: Adding root node ()
-------
$ heads .
2: Adding b branch (b)
=======
$ echo 'bh1' >bh1
$ hg add bh1
$ hg commit -m "Adding b branch head 1"
$ heads
3: Adding b branch head 1 (b)
1: Adding a branch (a)
0: Adding root node ()
-------
$ heads .
3: Adding b branch head 1 (b)
=======
$ hg update -C 2
0 files updated, 0 files merged, 1 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ echo 'bh2' >bh2
$ hg add bh2
$ hg commit -m "Adding b branch head 2"
created new head
$ heads
4: Adding b branch head 2 (b)
3: Adding b branch head 1 (b)
1: Adding a branch (a)
0: Adding root node ()
$ heads .
4: Adding b branch head 2 (b)
3: Adding b branch head 1 (b)
=======
$ hg update -C 2
0 files updated, 0 files merged, 1 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ echo 'bh3' >bh3
$ hg add bh3
$ hg commit -m "Adding b branch head 3"
created new head
$ heads
5: Adding b branch head 3 (b)
4: Adding b branch head 2 (b)
3: Adding b branch head 1 (b)
1: Adding a branch (a)
0: Adding root node ()
-------
$ heads .
5: Adding b branch head 3 (b)
4: Adding b branch head 2 (b)
3: Adding b branch head 1 (b)
=======
$ hg merge 4
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
(branch merge, don't forget to commit)
$ hg commit -m "Merging b branch head 2 and b branch head 3"
$ heads
6: Merging b branch head 2 and b branch head 3 (b)
3: Adding b branch head 1 (b)
1: Adding a branch (a)
0: Adding root node ()
-------
$ heads .
6: Merging b branch head 2 and b branch head 3 (b)
3: Adding b branch head 1 (b)
=======
$ echo 'c' >c
$ hg add c
$ hg branch c
marked working directory as branch c
$ hg commit -m "Adding c branch"
$ heads
7: Adding c branch (c)
6: Merging b branch head 2 and b branch head 3 (b)
3: Adding b branch head 1 (b)
1: Adding a branch (a)
0: Adding root node ()
-------
$ heads .
7: Adding c branch (c)
=======
$ heads -r 3 .
no open branch heads found on branches c (started at 3)
[1]
$ heads -r 2 .
7: Adding c branch (c)
-------
$ hg update -C 4
0 files updated, 0 files merged, 2 files removed, 0 files unresolved
-------
$ heads -r 3 .
3: Adding b branch head 1 (b)
-------
$ heads -r 2 .
6: Merging b branch head 2 and b branch head 3 (b)
3: Adding b branch head 1 (b)
-------
$ heads -r 7 .
no open branch heads found on branches b (started at 7)
[1]
=======
$ for i in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7; do
> hg update -C "$i"
> heads
> echo '-------'
> heads .
> echo '-------'
> done
0 files updated, 0 files merged, 2 files removed, 0 files unresolved
7: Adding c branch (c)
6: Merging b branch head 2 and b branch head 3 (b)
3: Adding b branch head 1 (b)
1: Adding a branch (a)
0: Adding root node ()
-------
0: Adding root node ()
-------
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
7: Adding c branch (c)
6: Merging b branch head 2 and b branch head 3 (b)
3: Adding b branch head 1 (b)
1: Adding a branch (a)
0: Adding root node ()
-------
1: Adding a branch (a)
-------
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 1 files removed, 0 files unresolved
7: Adding c branch (c)
6: Merging b branch head 2 and b branch head 3 (b)
3: Adding b branch head 1 (b)
1: Adding a branch (a)
0: Adding root node ()
-------
6: Merging b branch head 2 and b branch head 3 (b)
3: Adding b branch head 1 (b)
-------
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
7: Adding c branch (c)
6: Merging b branch head 2 and b branch head 3 (b)
3: Adding b branch head 1 (b)
1: Adding a branch (a)
0: Adding root node ()
-------
6: Merging b branch head 2 and b branch head 3 (b)
3: Adding b branch head 1 (b)
-------
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 1 files removed, 0 files unresolved
7: Adding c branch (c)
6: Merging b branch head 2 and b branch head 3 (b)
3: Adding b branch head 1 (b)
1: Adding a branch (a)
0: Adding root node ()
-------
6: Merging b branch head 2 and b branch head 3 (b)
3: Adding b branch head 1 (b)
-------
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 1 files removed, 0 files unresolved
7: Adding c branch (c)
6: Merging b branch head 2 and b branch head 3 (b)
3: Adding b branch head 1 (b)
1: Adding a branch (a)
0: Adding root node ()
-------
6: Merging b branch head 2 and b branch head 3 (b)
3: Adding b branch head 1 (b)
-------
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
7: Adding c branch (c)
6: Merging b branch head 2 and b branch head 3 (b)
3: Adding b branch head 1 (b)
1: Adding a branch (a)
0: Adding root node ()
-------
6: Merging b branch head 2 and b branch head 3 (b)
3: Adding b branch head 1 (b)
-------
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
7: Adding c branch (c)
6: Merging b branch head 2 and b branch head 3 (b)
3: Adding b branch head 1 (b)
1: Adding a branch (a)
0: Adding root node ()
-------
7: Adding c branch (c)
-------
=======
$ for i in a b c z; do
> heads "$i"
> echo '-------'
> done
1: Adding a branch (a)
-------
6: Merging b branch head 2 and b branch head 3 (b)
3: Adding b branch head 1 (b)
-------
7: Adding c branch (c)
-------
abort: unknown revision 'z'!
-------
=======
$ heads 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
7: Adding c branch (c)
6: Merging b branch head 2 and b branch head 3 (b)
3: Adding b branch head 1 (b)
1: Adding a branch (a)
0: Adding root node ()
Topological heads:
$ heads -t
7: Adding c branch (c)
3: Adding b branch head 1 (b)
1: Adding a branch (a)
$ cd ..
______________
"created new head" message tests
$ hg init newheadmsg
$ cd newheadmsg
Init: no msg
$ echo 1 > a
$ hg ci -Am "a0: Initial root"
adding a
$ echo 2 >> a
$ hg ci -m "a1 (HN)"
$ hg branch b
marked working directory as branch b
(branches are permanent and global, did you want a bookmark?)
$ echo 1 > b
$ hg ci -Am "b2: Initial root for branch b"
adding b
$ echo 2 >> b
$ hg ci -m "b3 (HN)"
Case NN: msg
$ hg up -q null
$ hg branch -f b
marked working directory as branch b
$ echo 1 > bb
$ hg ci -Am "b4 (NN): new topo root for branch b"
adding bb
created new head
Case HN: no msg
$ echo 2 >> bb
$ hg ci -m "b5 (HN)"
Case BN: msg
$ hg branch -f default
marked working directory as branch default
$ echo 1 > aa
$ hg ci -Am "a6 (BN): new branch root"
adding aa
created new head
Case CN: msg
$ hg up -q 4
$ echo 3 >> bbb
$ hg ci -Am "b7 (CN): regular new head"
adding bbb
created new head
Case BB: msg
$ hg up -q 4
$ hg merge -q 3
$ hg branch -f default
marked working directory as branch default
$ hg ci -m "a8 (BB): weird new branch root"
created new head
Case CB: msg
$ hg up -q 4
$ hg merge -q 1
$ hg ci -m "b9 (CB): new head from branch merge"
created new head
Case HB: no msg
$ hg up -q 7
$ hg merge -q 6
$ hg ci -m "b10 (HB): continuing head from branch merge"
Case CC: msg
$ hg up -q 4
$ hg merge -q 2
$ hg ci -m "b11 (CC): new head from merge"
created new head
Case CH: no msg
$ hg up -q 2
$ hg merge -q 10
$ hg ci -m "b12 (CH): continuing head from merge"
Case HH: no msg
$ hg merge -q 3
$ hg ci -m "b12 (HH): merging two heads"
$ cd ..