mercurial/node.py

help: show "[no-]" only for default-on Flags

As Anton (av6) pointed out, the "[no-]" is confusing for action flags
like `hg bookmark --delete`. We could come up with a way of indicating
which flags are action flags (e.g. use None for the default value
instead of False). However, it's probably also unlikely that users
will want to negate even non-action flags like --hidden.

One of the more common flags where the "[no-]" prefix would be useful
is `hg evolve --update`. The reason it's helpful there is that it
defaults to on. So I think we can simply include "[no-]" only for
flags that are on by default (and thus require the user to add the
"[no-]" for the option to have any effect).

Note that there are use cases for negating flags that already off by
default. For example, you may have an alias for `hg log -G --hidden -T
foo` and now want to pass "--no-hidden" to that alias. However, I
think that users who want that are likely to be advanced enough that
they've already learnt about the "no-" prefix by seeing it somewhere
else.

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D5454

# node.py - basic nodeid manipulation for mercurial
#
# Copyright 2005, 2006 Matt Mackall <[e-mail]>
#
# This software may be used and distributed according to the terms of the
# GNU General Public License version 2 or any later version.

from __future__ import absolute_import

import binascii

# This ugly style has a noticeable effect in manifest parsing
hex = binascii.hexlify
# Adapt to Python 3 API changes. If this ends up showing up in
# profiles, we can use this version only on Python 3, and forward
# binascii.unhexlify like we used to on Python 2.
def bin(s):
    try:
        return binascii.unhexlify(s)
    except binascii.Error as e:
        raise TypeError(e)

nullrev = -1
# In hex, this is '0000000000000000000000000000000000000000'
nullid = b"\0" * 20
nullhex = hex(nullid)

# Phony node value to stand-in for new files in some uses of
# manifests.
# In hex, this is '2121212121212121212121212121212121212121'
newnodeid = '!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!'
# In hex, this is '3030303030303030303030303030306164646564'
addednodeid = '000000000000000added'
# In hex, this is '3030303030303030303030306d6f646966696564'
modifiednodeid = '000000000000modified'

wdirfilenodeids = {newnodeid, addednodeid, modifiednodeid}

# pseudo identifiers for working directory
# (they are experimental, so don't add too many dependencies on them)
wdirrev = 0x7fffffff
# In hex, this is 'ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff'
wdirid = b"\xff" * 20
wdirhex = hex(wdirid)

def short(node):
    return hex(node[:6])