test-revert: reverting no change means it's clean This is the first step in a series that aims to put the state, not the state transitions, in the filenames of the files generated by the gen-revert-cases.py script. The possible state of a file in a revision and in the working copy is only whether it exists and what its content is (the tests don't care check flags). In the dirstate, the only state is whether it's tracked or not. With the new naming, the file that is currently called modified_untracked-clean now becomes content1_content2_content2-untracked, for example. By putting these states in the filename, it becomes easier to see that we're not missing or duplicating any state, and to check that the state is what we think it is. For example, the file that is currently called missing_clean becomes missing_missing_missing-tracked and it's clearer that it should be tracked. Putting the content in the filename will also make the tests of file content (e.g. "cat ../content-parent.txt") very obvious. When we put the state in the filename, the filenames clearly need to be unique. However, it turns out that some states are currently tested multiple times. The 'revert' transition in the script means to take the content from the grandparent. If the parent is the same as the grandparent, there is no change compared to the parent, which is exactly what 'clean' means. Avoid testing the same state twice.

merge with stable

extdiff: drop the command alias without options example in the help text In the dropped example, the extension would look for 'vdiff.diffargs' in the configuration, and not finding it, would run kdiff3 without the configured options. That's not obvious to a new user who sees a kdiff3 configuration in the prepackaged mergetools.rc file, and sees that kdiff3 still runs. While it is conceivable that the user wants a kdiff3 command that runs without the preconfigured options, it is more likely what they want is this, which uses the canned options: [alias] vdiff = kdiff3 [extdiff] kdiff3 = We could mention alias here, but that seems like it belongs elswhere.

extdiff: allow a preconfigured merge-tool to be invoked There are three ways to configure an extdiff tool: 1) cmd.tool = (/path/to/exe optional) 2) tool = (path/to/exe optional) 3) tool = sometool someargs Previously, if no executable is specified in the first two forms, the named tool must be in $PATH, or the invocation fails. Since the [merge-tools] section already has the path to the diff executable, and/or the registry keys to find the executable on Windows, reuse that configuration for forms 1 and 2 instead of failing. We already fallback to [diff-tools] and then [merge-tools] for program arguments if they aren't specified in the [extdiff] section. Since this additional lookup only occurs if an executable is not on the $PATH for the named tool, this is backwards compatible. For now, we assume the user knows what he is doing if a path is provided. This change allows a configuration file like this (assuming beyondcompare3 is configured in merge-tools), instead of hardcoding system specific a path: [extdiff] beyondcompare3 =