view tests/test-diff-reverse.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.

  $ hg init

  $ cat > a <<EOF
  > a
  > b
  > c
  > EOF
  $ hg ci -Am adda
  adding a

  $ cat > a <<EOF
  > d
  > e
  > f
  > EOF
  $ hg ci -m moda

  $ hg diff --reverse -r0 -r1
  diff -r 2855cdcfcbb7 -r 8e1805a3cf6e a
  --- a/a	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
  +++ b/a	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
  @@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
  -d
  -e
  -f
  +a
  +b
  +c

  $ cat >> a <<EOF
  > g
  > h
  > EOF
  $ hg diff --reverse --nodates
  diff -r 2855cdcfcbb7 a
  --- a/a
  +++ b/a
  @@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
   d
   e
   f
  -g
  -h