merge: remove "case" comments The comments introduced in f05c182430a0 seems important ... but the context has apparently been lost and they do not have any value now.

merge: merge file flags together with file content The 'x' flag and the 'l' flag are very different. It is usually not a problem to change the 'x' flag of a normal file independent of the content, but one does not simply change the type of a file to 'l' independent of the content. This removes the fmerge function that merged both 'x' and 'l' independent of content early in the merge process. This correctly introduces some conflicts instead of silent incorrect merges. 3-way flag merge will now be done in the resolve process, right next to file content merge. Conflicts can thus be resolved with (slightly inconvenient) resolve commands like 'resolve f --tool internal:other'. It thus brings us closer to be able to re-solve manifest merge after the merge and avoid prompts during merge. This also removes the "conflicting flags for a - (n)one, e(x)ec or sym(l)ink?" prompt that nobody could answer and that made it easy to mix symlink targets and file contents up. Instead it will give a file merge where a sufficiently clever merge tool can help resolving the issue.

tests: better test coverage of merges of flags This makes existing problems with merges of symlinks and files more obvious and add test coverage for tricky merges without real common ancestors.

merge: remove old pre-audit code checking for absolute paths Audit will handle this in a more elegant way.

merge: drop reference to file contents immediately after write Like 7d2aaeea67ed this reduces memory usage on large merges.

merge: changing the mode of a file is also an update It was a change in the file system that wasn't reported in the summaries.

merge: use util.unlinkpath for removing moved files - more like how removed files are removed.

merge: .hgsubstate is special as merge destination, not as merge source

merge: remove redundant unlink after merge The early prescan for move/remove and removal of moved files in applyupdates was introduced with mergestate 368a4ec603cc and rendered this chunk of code irrelevant. The impact of the chunk was reduced in 5b3383ea67d2 - but it could have been removed completely.

merge: rename list of actions from action to actions

merge: consistently use "x" instead of 'x' for internal action types This makes it simpler to search for places where the action types are handled.

merge: consistently use repo.wopener.audit instead of creating a new auditor