repository: define new interface for running commands
Today, the peer interface exposes methods for each command that can
be executed. In addition, there is an iterbatch() API that allows
commands to be issued in batches and provides an iterator over the
results. This is a glorified wrapper around the "batch" wire command.
Wire protocol version 2 supports nicer things (such as batching
any command and out-of-order replies). It will require a more
flexible API for executing commands.
This commit introduces a new peer interface for making command
requests. In the new world, you can't simply call a method on the
peer to execute a command: you need to obtain an object to be used
for executing commands. That object can be used to issue a single
command or it can batch multiple requests. In the case of full duplex
peers, the command may even be sent out over the wire immediately.
There are no per-command methods. Instead, there is a generic
method to call a command. The implementation can then perform domain
specific processing for specific commands. This includes passing
data via a specially named argument.
Arguments are also passed as a dictionary instead of using **kwargs.
While **kwargs is nicer to use, we've historically gotten into
trouble using it because there will inevitably be a conflict between
the name of an argument to a wire protocol command and an argument
we want to pass into a function.
Instead of a command returning a value, it returns a future which
will resolve to a value. This opens the door for out-of-order
response handling and concurrent response handling in the version
2 protocol.
Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D3267
$ hg init
$ echo a > a
$ hg ci -Ama
adding a
$ hg an a
0: a
$ hg --config ui.strict=False an a
0: a
$ echo "[ui]" >> $HGRCPATH
$ echo "strict=True" >> $HGRCPATH
$ hg an a
hg: unknown command 'an'
Mercurial Distributed SCM
basic commands:
add add the specified files on the next commit
annotate show changeset information by line for each file
clone make a copy of an existing repository
commit commit the specified files or all outstanding changes
diff diff repository (or selected files)
export dump the header and diffs for one or more changesets
forget forget the specified files on the next commit
init create a new repository in the given directory
log show revision history of entire repository or files
merge merge another revision into working directory
pull pull changes from the specified source
push push changes to the specified destination
remove remove the specified files on the next commit
serve start stand-alone webserver
status show changed files in the working directory
summary summarize working directory state
update update working directory (or switch revisions)
(use 'hg help' for the full list of commands or 'hg -v' for details)
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$ hg annotate a
0: a
should succeed - up is an alias, not an abbreviation
$ hg up
0 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved