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.
#require no-msys # MSYS will translate web paths as if they were file paths
This is a test of the wire protocol over CGI-based hgweb.
initialize repository
$ hg init test
$ cd test
$ echo a > a
$ hg ci -Ama
adding a
$ cd ..
$ cat >hgweb.cgi <<HGWEB
> #
> # An example CGI script to use hgweb, edit as necessary
> import cgitb
> cgitb.enable()
> from mercurial import demandimport; demandimport.enable()
> from mercurial.hgweb import hgweb
> from mercurial.hgweb import wsgicgi
> application = hgweb("test", "Empty test repository")
> wsgicgi.launch(application)
> HGWEB
$ chmod 755 hgweb.cgi
try hgweb request
$ . "$TESTDIR/cgienv"
$ QUERY_STRING="cmd=changegroup&roots=0000000000000000000000000000000000000000"; export QUERY_STRING
$ python hgweb.cgi >page1 2>&1
$ python "$TESTDIR/md5sum.py" page1
1f424bb22ec05c3c6bc866b6e67efe43 page1
make sure headers are sent even when there is no body
$ QUERY_STRING="cmd=listkeys&namespace=nosuchnamespace" python hgweb.cgi
Status: 200 Script output follows\r (esc)
Content-Type: application/mercurial-0.1\r (esc)
Content-Length: 0\r (esc)
\r (esc)