narrow: delegate the dirstate's narrow spec writing to the transaction
This make it more transactional and will help us to simplify their backup.
The implementation is not great, but it keep the patch simple as this is not the
time for a larger refactoring yet.
#testcases bdiff xdiff
#if xdiff
#require xdiff
$ cat >> $HGRCPATH <<EOF
> [experimental]
> xdiff = true
> EOF
#endif
Test case that makes use of the weakness of patience diff algorithm
$ hg init
>>> open('a', 'wb').write(('\n'.join(list('a' + 'x' * 10 + 'u' + 'x' * 30 + 'a\n'))).encode('ascii')) and None
$ hg commit -m 1 -A a
>>> open('a', 'wb').write(('\n'.join(list('b' + 'x' * 30 + 'u' + 'x' * 10 + 'b\n'))).encode('ascii')) and None
#if xdiff
$ hg diff
diff -r f0aeecb49805 a
--- a/a Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/a Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-a
+b
x
x
x
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@
x
x
x
-u
x
x
x
@@ -30,6 +29,7 @@
x
x
x
+u
x
x
x
@@ -40,5 +40,5 @@
x
x
x
-a
+b
#else
$ hg diff
diff -r f0aeecb49805 a
--- a/a Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/a Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
@@ -1,15 +1,4 @@
-a
-x
-x
-x
-x
-x
-x
-x
-x
-x
-x
-u
+b
x
x
x
@@ -40,5 +29,16 @@
x
x
x
-a
+u
+x
+x
+x
+x
+x
+x
+x
+x
+x
+x
+b
#endif