filemerge: add support for partial conflict resolution by external tool
A common class of merge conflicts is in imports/#includes/etc. It's
relatively easy to write a tool that can resolve these conflicts,
perhaps by naively just unioning the statements and leaving any
cleanup to other tools to do later [1]. Such specialized tools cannot
generally resolve all conflicts in a file, of course. Let's therefore
call them "partial merge tools". Note that the internal simplemerge
algorithm is such a partial merge tool - one that only resolves
trivial "conflicts" where one side is unchanged or both sides change
in the same way.
One can also imagine having smarter language-aware partial tools that
merge the AST. It may be useful for such tools to interactively let
the user resolve any conflicts it can't resolve itself. However,
having the option of implementing it as a partial merge tool means
that the developer doesn't *need* to create a UI for it. Instead, the
user can resolve any remaining conflicts with their regular merge tool
(e.g. `:merge3` or `meld).
We don't currently have a way to let the user define such partial
merge tools. That's what this patch addresses. It lets the user
configure partial merge tools to run. Each tool can be configured to
run only on files matching certain patterns (e.g. "*.py"). The tool
takes three inputs (local, base, other) and resolves conflicts by
updating these in place. For example, let's say the inputs are these:
base:
```
import sys
def main():
print('Hello')
```
local:
```
import os
import sys
def main():
print('Hi')
```
other:
```
import re
import sys
def main():
print('Howdy')
```
A partial merge tool could now resolve the conflicting imports by
replacing the import statements in *all* files by the following
snippet, while leaving the remainder of the files unchanged.
```
import os
import re
import sys
```
As a result, simplemerge and any regular merge tool that runs after
the partial merge tool(s) will consider the imports to be
non-conflicting and will only present the conflict in `main()` to the
user.
Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D12356
Test histedit extension: Merge tools
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Initialization
---------------
$ . "$TESTDIR/histedit-helpers.sh"
$ cat >> $HGRCPATH <<EOF
> [alias]
> logt = log --template '{rev}:{node|short} {desc|firstline}\n'
> [extensions]
> histedit=
> mockmakedate = $TESTDIR/mockmakedate.py
> EOF
Merge conflict
--------------
$ hg init r
$ cd r
$ cat >> .hg/hgrc <<EOF
> [command-templates]
> pre-merge-tool-output='pre-merge message for {node}\n'
> EOF
$ echo foo > file
$ hg add file
$ hg ci -m "First" -d "1 0"
$ echo bar > file
$ hg ci -m "Second" -d "2 0"
$ hg logt --graph
@ 1:2aa920f62fb9 Second
|
o 0:7181f42b8fca First
Invert the order of the commits, but fail the merge.
$ hg histedit --config ui.merge=false --commands - 2>&1 <<EOF | fixbundle
> pick 2aa920f62fb9 Second
> pick 7181f42b8fca First
> EOF
merging file
pre-merge message for b90fa2e91a6d11013945a5f684be45b84a8ca6ec
merging file failed!
Fix up the change (pick 7181f42b8fca)
(hg histedit --continue to resume)
$ hg histedit --abort | fixbundle
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
Invert the order of the commits, and pretend the merge succeeded.
$ hg histedit --config ui.merge=true --commands - 2>&1 <<EOF | fixbundle
> pick 2aa920f62fb9 Second
> pick 7181f42b8fca First
> EOF
merging file
pre-merge message for b90fa2e91a6d11013945a5f684be45b84a8ca6ec
7181f42b8fca: skipping changeset (no changes)
$ hg histedit --abort
abort: no histedit in progress
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$ cd ..
Test legacy config name
$ hg init r2
$ cd r2
$ echo foo > file
$ hg add file
$ hg ci -m "First"
$ echo bar > file
$ hg ci -m "Second"
$ echo conflict > file
$ hg co -m 0 --config ui.merge=false \
> --config ui.pre-merge-tool-output-template='legacy config: {node}\n'
merging file
legacy config: 889c9c4d58bd4ce74815efd04a01e0f2bf6765a7
merging file failed!
0 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 1 files unresolved
use 'hg resolve' to retry unresolved file merges
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