shelve: add an ability to write key-val data to a new type of shelve files
Obsolescense-based shelve only needs metadata stored in .hg/shelved
and if feels that this metadata should be stored in a
simplekeyvaluefile format for potential extensibility purposes.
I want to avoid storing it in an unstructured text file where
order of lines determines their semantical meanings (as now
happens in .hg/shelvedstate. .hg/rebasestate and I suspect other
state files as well).
Not included in this series, I have ~30 commits, doubling test-shelve.t
in size and testing almost every tested shelve usecase for obs-shelve.
Here's the series for the curious now: http://pastebin.com/tGJKx0vM
I would like to send it to the mailing list and get accepted as well,
but:
1. it's big, so should I send like 6 patches a time or so?
2. instead of having a commit per test case, it more like
a commit per some amount of copy-pasted code. I tried to keep
it meaningful and named commits somewhat properly, but it is
far from this list standards IMO. Any advice on how to get it
in without turning it into a 100 commits and spending many
days writing descriptions?
3. it makes test-shelve.t run for twice as long (and it is already
a slow test). Newest test-shelve.r runs for ~1 minute.
scmutil: add a simple key-value file helper
The purpose of the added class is to serve purposes like save files of shelve
or state files of shelve, rebase and histedit. Keys of these files can be
alphanumeric and start with letters, while values must not contain newlines.
In light of Mercurial's reluctancy to use Python's json module, this tries
to provide a reasonable alternative for a non-nested named data.
Comparing to current approach of storing state in plain text files, where
semantic meaning of lines of text is only determined by their oreder,
simple key-value file allows for reordering lines and thus helps handle
optional values.
Initial use-case I see for this is obs-shelve's shelve files. Later we
can possibly migrate state files to this approach.
The test is in a new file beause I did not figure out where to put it
within existing test suite. If you give me a better idea, I will gladly
follow it.
graphlog: draw multiple edges towards null node (
issue5440)
Before, edge (r, null) was processed only once by newparents. However what
we really need is just stripping the edge (null, null).