tests/test-relink.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.

#require hardlink

  $ echo "[extensions]" >> $HGRCPATH
  $ echo "relink=" >> $HGRCPATH

  $ fix_path() {
  >     tr '\\' /
  > }

  $ cat > arelinked.py <<EOF
  > import sys, os
  > from mercurial import util
  > path1, path2 = sys.argv[1:3]
  > if util.samefile(path1, path2):
  >     print '%s == %s' % (path1, path2)
  > else:
  >     print '%s != %s' % (path1, path2)
  > EOF


create source repository

  $ hg init repo
  $ cd repo
  $ echo a > a
  $ echo b > b
  $ hg ci -Am addfile
  adding a
  adding b
  $ cat "$TESTDIR/binfile.bin" >> a
  $ cat "$TESTDIR/binfile.bin" >> b
  $ hg ci -Am changefiles

make another commit to create files larger than 1 KB to test
formatting of final byte count

  $ cat "$TESTDIR/binfile.bin" >> a
  $ cat "$TESTDIR/binfile.bin" >> b
  $ hg ci -m anotherchange

don't sit forever trying to double-lock the source repo

  $ hg relink .
  relinking $TESTTMP/repo/.hg/store to $TESTTMP/repo/.hg/store (glob)
  there is nothing to relink


Test files are read in binary mode

  $ $PYTHON -c "file('.hg/store/data/dummy.i', 'wb').write('a\r\nb\n')"
  $ cd ..


clone and pull to break links

  $ hg clone --pull -r0 repo clone
  adding changesets
  adding manifests
  adding file changes
  added 1 changesets with 2 changes to 2 files
  updating to branch default
  2 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
  $ cd clone
  $ hg pull -q
  $ echo b >> b
  $ hg ci -m changeb
  created new head
  $ $PYTHON -c "file('.hg/store/data/dummy.i', 'wb').write('a\nb\r\n')"


relink

  $ hg relink --debug --config progress.debug=true | fix_path
  relinking $TESTTMP/repo/.hg/store to $TESTTMP/clone/.hg/store
  tip has 2 files, estimated total number of files: 3
  collecting: 00changelog.i 1/3 files (33.33%)
  collecting: 00manifest.i 2/3 files (66.67%)
  collecting: a.i 3/3 files (100.00%)
  collecting: b.i 4/3 files (133.33%)
  collecting: dummy.i 5/3 files (166.67%)
  collected 5 candidate storage files
  not linkable: 00changelog.i
  not linkable: 00manifest.i
  pruning: data/a.i 3/5 files (60.00%)
  not linkable: data/b.i
  pruning: data/dummy.i 5/5 files (100.00%)
  pruned down to 2 probably relinkable files
  relinking: data/a.i 1/2 files (50.00%)
  not linkable: data/dummy.i
  relinked 1 files (1.36 KB reclaimed)
  $ cd ..


check hardlinks

  $ python arelinked.py repo/.hg/store/data/a.i clone/.hg/store/data/a.i
  repo/.hg/store/data/a.i == clone/.hg/store/data/a.i
  $ python arelinked.py repo/.hg/store/data/b.i clone/.hg/store/data/b.i
  repo/.hg/store/data/b.i != clone/.hg/store/data/b.i