revset: evaluate filesets against each revision for 'file()' (
issue5778)
After
f2aeff8a87b6, the fileset was evaluated to a set of files against the
working directory, and then those files were applied against each revision. The
result was nonsense. For example, `hg log -r 'file("set:exec()")'` on the
Mercurial repo listed revision 0 because it has the `hg` script, which is
currently +x. But that bit wasn't applied until revision 280 (which
'contains()' properly indicates).
This technique was borrowed from checkstatus(), which services adds(),
modifies(), and removes(), so it seems safe enough. The 'r:' case is explicitly
assigned to wdirrev, freeing up rev=None to mean "re-evaluate at each revision".
The distinction is important to avoid behavior changes with `hg log set:...`
(test-largefiles-misc.t and test-fileset-generated.t drop current log output
without this). I'm not sure what the right behavior for that is (
1fd352aa08fc
explicitly enabled this behavior for graphlog), but the day before the release
isn't the time to experiment.
Synopsis
========
The Mercurial system uses a file called ``.hgignore`` in the root
directory of a repository to control its behavior when it searches
for files that it is not currently tracking.
Description
===========
The working directory of a Mercurial repository will often contain
files that should not be tracked by Mercurial. These include backup
files created by editors and build products created by compilers.
These files can be ignored by listing them in a ``.hgignore`` file in
the root of the working directory. The ``.hgignore`` file must be
created manually. It is typically put under version control, so that
the settings will propagate to other repositories with push and pull.
An untracked file is ignored if its path relative to the repository
root directory, or any prefix path of that path, is matched against
any pattern in ``.hgignore``.
For example, say we have an untracked file, ``file.c``, at
``a/b/file.c`` inside our repository. Mercurial will ignore ``file.c``
if any pattern in ``.hgignore`` matches ``a/b/file.c``, ``a/b`` or ``a``.
In addition, a Mercurial configuration file can reference a set of
per-user or global ignore files. See the ``ignore`` configuration
key on the ``[ui]`` section of :hg:`help config` for details of how to
configure these files.
To control Mercurial's handling of files that it manages, many
commands support the ``-I`` and ``-X`` options; see
:hg:`help <command>` and :hg:`help patterns` for details.
Files that are already tracked are not affected by .hgignore, even
if they appear in .hgignore. An untracked file X can be explicitly
added with :hg:`add X`, even if X would be excluded by a pattern
in .hgignore.
Syntax
======
An ignore file is a plain text file consisting of a list of patterns,
with one pattern per line. Empty lines are skipped. The ``#``
character is treated as a comment character, and the ``\`` character
is treated as an escape character.
Mercurial supports several pattern syntaxes. The default syntax used
is Python/Perl-style regular expressions.
To change the syntax used, use a line of the following form::
syntax: NAME
where ``NAME`` is one of the following:
``regexp``
Regular expression, Python/Perl syntax.
``glob``
Shell-style glob.
The chosen syntax stays in effect when parsing all patterns that
follow, until another syntax is selected.
Neither glob nor regexp patterns are rooted. A glob-syntax pattern of
the form ``*.c`` will match a file ending in ``.c`` in any directory,
and a regexp pattern of the form ``\.c$`` will do the same. To root a
regexp pattern, start it with ``^``.
Subdirectories can have their own .hgignore settings by adding
``subinclude:path/to/subdir/.hgignore`` to the root ``.hgignore``. See
:hg:`help patterns` for details on ``subinclude:`` and ``include:``.
.. note::
Patterns specified in other than ``.hgignore`` are always rooted.
Please see :hg:`help patterns` for details.
Example
=======
Here is an example ignore file. ::
# use glob syntax.
syntax: glob
*.elc
*.pyc
*~
# switch to regexp syntax.
syntax: regexp
^\.pc/