view tests/test-merge7.t @ 30152:d65e246100ed

help: backout f3c4edfd35e1 (mark boolean flags with [no-] in help) for now

The ability to negate any boolean flags itself is great, but I think we are not
ready to expose the help side of it yet.

First, while there exist a handful of such flags whose default value can be
changed (eg: git diff, patchwork confirmation), there is only a few of them. The
users who benefit the most from this change are alias users and large
installation that can deploy extension to change behavior (eg: facebook
tweakdefault).  So the majority of user who will be affected by a large change
to command help that is not yet relevant to them. (I expect this to become
relevant when ui.progressive start to exists).

Below is an example of the impact of the new help on 'hg help diff':

  -r --rev REV [+]              revision
  -c --change REV               change made by revision
  -a --[no-]text                treat all files as text
  -g --[no-]git                 use git extended diff format
     --[no-]nodates             omit dates from diff headers
     --[no-]noprefix            omit a/ and b/ prefixes from filenames
  -p --[no-]show-function       show which function each change is in
     --[no-]reverse             produce a diff that undoes the changes
  -w --[no-]ignore-all-space    ignore white space when comparing lines
  -b --[no-]ignore-space-change ignore changes in the amount of white space
  -B --[no-]ignore-blank-lines  ignore changes whose lines are all blank
  -U --unified NUM              number of lines of context to show
     --[no-]stat                output diffstat-style summary of changes
     --root DIR                 produce diffs relative to subdirectory
  -I --include PATTERN [+]      include names matching the given patterns
  -X --exclude PATTERN [+]      exclude names matching the given patterns
  -S --[no-]subrepos            recurse into subrepositories

Another issue with the current state of help, the default value for the
flag is not conveyed to the user. For example in the 'backout' help, there is
no real distinction between "--[no-]backup" (default to True) and "--[no-]keep"
(default) to False:

  --[no-]backup        no backups
  --[no-]keep          do not modify working directory during strip

In addition, I've discussed with Augie Fackler and the last batch of the work on
this have burned him out quite some. Therefore he is not intending to perform
any more work on this topic. Quoting him, he would rather see the help part
backed out than spending more time on it.

I do not think we are ready to expose this to users in 4.0 (freeze in a week),
especially because we cannot expect quick improvement on these aspect as this
topic no longer have an owner. We should be able to reintroduce that change in
the future when someone get back on it and the main issues are solves:

* Introduction of  ui.progressive makes it relevant for a majority of user,
* Current default value are efficiently conveyed to the user.

(In addition, the excerpt from diff help show that we still have some issue with
some negative option like '--nodates' so further improvement are probably
welcome there.)

initial
  $ hg init test-a
  $ cd test-a
  $ cat >test.txt <<"EOF"
  > 1
  > 2
  > 3
  > EOF
  $ hg add test.txt
  $ hg commit -m "Initial"

clone
  $ cd ..
  $ hg clone test-a test-b
  updating to branch default
  1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved

change test-a
  $ cd test-a
  $ cat >test.txt <<"EOF"
  > one
  > two
  > three
  > EOF
  $ hg commit -m "Numbers as words"

change test-b
  $ cd ../test-b
  $ cat >test.txt <<"EOF"
  > 1
  > 2.5
  > 3
  > EOF
  $ hg commit -m "2 -> 2.5"

now pull and merge from test-a
  $ hg pull ../test-a
  pulling from ../test-a
  searching for changes
  adding changesets
  adding manifests
  adding file changes
  added 1 changesets with 1 changes to 1 files (+1 heads)
  (run 'hg heads' to see heads, 'hg merge' to merge)
  $ hg merge
  merging test.txt
  warning: conflicts while merging test.txt! (edit, then use 'hg resolve --mark')
  0 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 1 files unresolved
  use 'hg resolve' to retry unresolved file merges or 'hg update -C .' to abandon
  [1]
resolve conflict
  $ cat >test.txt <<"EOF"
  > one
  > two-point-five
  > three
  > EOF
  $ rm -f *.orig
  $ hg resolve -m test.txt
  (no more unresolved files)
  $ hg commit -m "Merge 1"

change test-a again
  $ cd ../test-a
  $ cat >test.txt <<"EOF"
  > one
  > two-point-one
  > three
  > EOF
  $ hg commit -m "two -> two-point-one"

pull and merge from test-a again
  $ cd ../test-b
  $ hg pull ../test-a
  pulling from ../test-a
  searching for changes
  adding changesets
  adding manifests
  adding file changes
  added 1 changesets with 1 changes to 1 files (+1 heads)
  (run 'hg heads' to see heads, 'hg merge' to merge)
  $ hg merge --debug
    searching for copies back to rev 1
  resolving manifests
   branchmerge: True, force: False, partial: False
   ancestor: 96b70246a118, local: 50c3a7e29886+, remote: 40d11a4173a8
   preserving test.txt for resolve of test.txt
  starting 4 threads for background file closing (?)
   test.txt: versions differ -> m (premerge)
  picked tool ':merge' for test.txt (binary False symlink False changedelete False)
  merging test.txt
  my test.txt@50c3a7e29886+ other test.txt@40d11a4173a8 ancestor test.txt@96b70246a118
   test.txt: versions differ -> m (merge)
  picked tool ':merge' for test.txt (binary False symlink False changedelete False)
  my test.txt@50c3a7e29886+ other test.txt@40d11a4173a8 ancestor test.txt@96b70246a118
  warning: conflicts while merging test.txt! (edit, then use 'hg resolve --mark')
  0 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 1 files unresolved
  use 'hg resolve' to retry unresolved file merges or 'hg update -C .' to abandon
  [1]

  $ cat test.txt
  one
  <<<<<<< working copy: 50c3a7e29886  - test: Merge 1
  two-point-five
  =======
  two-point-one
  >>>>>>> merge rev:    40d11a4173a8 - test: two -> two-point-one
  three

  $ hg debugindex test.txt
     rev    offset  length  ..... linkrev nodeid       p1           p2 (re)
       0         0       7  .....       0 01365c4cca56 000000000000 000000000000 (re)
       1         7       9  .....       1 7b013192566a 01365c4cca56 000000000000 (re)
       2        16      15  .....       2 8fe46a3eb557 01365c4cca56 000000000000 (re)
       3        31      2.  .....       3 fc3148072371 7b013192566a 8fe46a3eb557 (re)
       4        5.      25  .....       4 d40249267ae3 8fe46a3eb557 000000000000 (re)

  $ hg log
  changeset:   4:40d11a4173a8
  tag:         tip
  parent:      2:96b70246a118
  user:        test
  date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
  summary:     two -> two-point-one
  
  changeset:   3:50c3a7e29886
  parent:      1:d1e159716d41
  parent:      2:96b70246a118
  user:        test
  date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
  summary:     Merge 1
  
  changeset:   2:96b70246a118
  parent:      0:b1832b9d912a
  user:        test
  date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
  summary:     Numbers as words
  
  changeset:   1:d1e159716d41
  user:        test
  date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
  summary:     2 -> 2.5
  
  changeset:   0:b1832b9d912a
  user:        test
  date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
  summary:     Initial
  

  $ cd ..