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copies: do not track backward copies, only renames (issue3739)

The inverse of a rename is a rename, but the inverse of a copy is not a copy.
Presenting it as such -- in particular, stuffing it into the same dict as real
copies -- causes bugs because other code starts believing the inverse copies
are real.

The only test whose output changes is test-mv-cp-st-diff.t. When a backwards
status -C command is run where a copy is involved, the inverse copy (which was
hitherto presented as a real copy) is no longer displayed.

Keeping track of inverse copies is useful in some situations -- composability
of diffs, for example, since adding "a" followed by an inverse copy "b" to "a"
is equivalent to a rename "b" to "a". However, representing them would require
a more complex data structure than the same dict in which real copies are also
stored.

# Mercurial extension to provide the 'hg children' command
#
# Copyright 2007 by Intevation GmbH <[e-mail]>
#
# Author(s):
# Thomas Arendsen Hein <[e-mail]>
#
# This software may be used and distributed according to the terms of the
# GNU General Public License version 2 or any later version.

'''command to display child changesets (DEPRECATED)

This extension is deprecated. You should use :hg:`log -r
"children(REV)"` instead.
'''

from mercurial import cmdutil, commands
from mercurial.commands import templateopts
from mercurial.i18n import _

testedwith = 'internal'

def children(ui, repo, file_=None, **opts):
    """show the children of the given or working directory revision

    Print the children of the working directory's revisions. If a
    revision is given via -r/--rev, the children of that revision will
    be printed. If a file argument is given, revision in which the
    file was last changed (after the working directory revision or the
    argument to --rev if given) is printed.
    """
    rev = opts.get('rev')
    if file_:
        ctx = repo.filectx(file_, changeid=rev)
    else:
        ctx = repo[rev]

    displayer = cmdutil.show_changeset(ui, repo, opts)
    for cctx in ctx.children():
        displayer.show(cctx)
    displayer.close()

cmdtable = {
    "children":
        (children,
         [('r', 'rev', '',
           _('show children of the specified revision'), _('REV')),
         ] + templateopts,
         _('hg children [-r REV] [FILE]')),
}

commands.inferrepo += " children"