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checkheads: extract obsolete post processing in its own function
The checkheads function is long and complex, extract that logic in a subfunction
is win in itself. As the comment in the code says, this postprocessing is
currently very basic and either misbehave or fails to detect valid push in many
cases. My deeper motive for this extraction is to be make it easier to provide
extensive testing of this case and strategy to cover them. Final test and logic
will makes it to core once done.
author | Pierre-Yves David <pierre-yves.david@ens-lyon.org> |
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date | Tue, 21 Mar 2017 23:30:13 +0100 |
parents | ebfc46929f3e |
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Mercurial's default format for showing changes between two versions of a file is compatible with the unified format of GNU diff, which can be used by GNU patch and many other standard tools. While this standard format is often enough, it does not encode the following information: - executable status and other permission bits - copy or rename information - changes in binary files - creation or deletion of empty files Mercurial also supports the extended diff format from the git VCS which addresses these limitations. The git diff format is not produced by default because a few widespread tools still do not understand this format. This means that when generating diffs from a Mercurial repository (e.g. with :hg:`export`), you should be careful about things like file copies and renames or other things mentioned above, because when applying a standard diff to a different repository, this extra information is lost. Mercurial's internal operations (like push and pull) are not affected by this, because they use an internal binary format for communicating changes. To make Mercurial produce the git extended diff format, use the --git option available for many commands, or set 'git = True' in the [diff] section of your configuration file. You do not need to set this option when importing diffs in this format or using them in the mq extension.