view tests/test-diff-subdir.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

  $ mkdir alpha
  $ touch alpha/one
  $ mkdir beta
  $ touch beta/two

  $ hg add alpha/one beta/two
  $ hg ci -m "start"

  $ echo 1 > alpha/one
  $ echo 2 > beta/two

everything

  $ hg diff --nodates
  diff -r 7d5ef1aea329 alpha/one
  --- a/alpha/one
  +++ b/alpha/one
  @@ -0,0 +1,1 @@
  +1
  diff -r 7d5ef1aea329 beta/two
  --- a/beta/two
  +++ b/beta/two
  @@ -0,0 +1,1 @@
  +2

beta only

  $ hg diff --nodates beta
  diff -r 7d5ef1aea329 beta/two
  --- a/beta/two
  +++ b/beta/two
  @@ -0,0 +1,1 @@
  +2

inside beta

  $ cd beta
  $ hg diff --nodates .
  diff -r 7d5ef1aea329 beta/two
  --- a/beta/two
  +++ b/beta/two
  @@ -0,0 +1,1 @@
  +2

  $ cd ..