tests/test-children.t

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.

test children command

  $ cat <<EOF >> $HGRCPATH
  > [extensions]
  > children =
  > EOF

init
  $ hg init t
  $ cd t

no working directory
  $ hg children

setup
  $ echo 0 > file0
  $ hg ci -qAm 0 -d '0 0'

  $ echo 1 > file1
  $ hg ci -qAm 1 -d '1 0'

  $ echo 2 >> file0
  $ hg ci -qAm 2 -d '2 0'

  $ hg co null
  0 files updated, 0 files merged, 2 files removed, 0 files unresolved
  $ echo 3 > file3
  $ hg ci -qAm 3 -d '3 0'

hg children at revision 3 (tip)
  $ hg children

  $ hg co null
  0 files updated, 0 files merged, 1 files removed, 0 files unresolved

hg children at nullrev (should be 0 and 3)
  $ hg children
  changeset:   0:4df8521a7374
  user:        test
  date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
  summary:     0
  
  changeset:   3:e2962852269d
  tag:         tip
  parent:      -1:000000000000
  user:        test
  date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:03 1970 +0000
  summary:     3
  
  $ hg co 1
  2 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved

hg children at revision 1 (should be 2)
  $ hg children
  changeset:   2:8f5eea5023c2
  user:        test
  date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:02 1970 +0000
  summary:     2
  
  $ hg co 2
  1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved

hg children at revision 2 (other head)
  $ hg children

  $ for i in null 0 1 2 3; do
  > echo "hg children -r $i"
  > hg children -r $i
  > done
  hg children -r null
  changeset:   0:4df8521a7374
  user:        test
  date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
  summary:     0
  
  changeset:   3:e2962852269d
  tag:         tip
  parent:      -1:000000000000
  user:        test
  date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:03 1970 +0000
  summary:     3
  
  hg children -r 0
  changeset:   1:708c093edef0
  user:        test
  date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:01 1970 +0000
  summary:     1
  
  hg children -r 1
  changeset:   2:8f5eea5023c2
  user:        test
  date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:02 1970 +0000
  summary:     2
  
  hg children -r 2
  hg children -r 3

hg children -r 0 file0 (should be 2)
  $ hg children -r 0 file0
  changeset:   2:8f5eea5023c2
  user:        test
  date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:02 1970 +0000
  summary:     2
  

hg children -r 1 file0 (should be 2)
  $ hg children -r 1 file0
  changeset:   2:8f5eea5023c2
  user:        test
  date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:02 1970 +0000
  summary:     2
  

  $ hg co 0
  1 files updated, 0 files merged, 1 files removed, 0 files unresolved

hg children file0 at revision 0 (should be 2)
  $ hg children file0
  changeset:   2:8f5eea5023c2
  user:        test
  date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:02 1970 +0000
  summary:     2
  

should be compatible with templater (don't pass fctx to displayer)
  $ hg children file0 -Tdefault
  changeset:   2:8f5eea5023c2
  user:        test
  date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:02 1970 +0000
  summary:     2
  

  $ cd ..