view tests/test-diff-copy-depth.t @ 18136:f23dea2b296e

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.

  $ for i in aaa zzz; do
  >     hg init t
  >     cd t
  > 
  >     echo
  >     echo "-- With $i"
  > 
  >     touch file
  >     hg add file
  >     hg ci -m "Add"
  > 
  >     hg cp file $i
  >     hg ci -m "a -> $i"
  > 
  >     hg cp $i other-file
  >     echo "different" >> $i
  >     hg ci -m "$i -> other-file"
  > 
  >     hg cp other-file somename
  > 
  >     echo "Status":
  >     hg st -C
  >     echo
  >     echo "Diff:"
  >     hg diff -g
  > 
  >     cd ..
  >     rm -rf t
  > done
  
  -- With aaa
  Status:
  A somename
    other-file
  
  Diff:
  diff --git a/other-file b/somename
  copy from other-file
  copy to somename
  
  -- With zzz
  Status:
  A somename
    other-file
  
  Diff:
  diff --git a/other-file b/somename
  copy from other-file
  copy to somename