absorb: preserve changesets which were already empty
Most commands in Mercurial (commit, rebase, absorb itself) don’t create empty
changesets or drop them if they become empty. If there’s a changeset that’s
empty, it must be a deliberate choice of the user. At least it shouldn’t be
absorb’s responsibility to prune them. The fact that changesets that became
empty during absorb are pruned, is unaffected by this.
This case was found while writing patches which make it possible to configure
absorb and rebase to not drop empty changesets. Even without having such config
set, I think it’s valuable to preserve changesets which were already empty.
Enable obsolete markers
$ cat >> $HGRCPATH << EOF
> [experimental]
> evolution.createmarkers=True
> [phases]
> publish=False
> EOF
Build a repo with some cacheable bits:
$ hg init a
$ cd a
$ echo a > a
$ hg ci -qAm0
$ hg tag t1
$ hg book -i bk1
$ hg branch -q b2
$ hg ci -Am1
$ hg tag t2
$ echo dumb > dumb
$ hg ci -qAmdumb
$ hg debugobsolete b1174d11b69e63cb0c5726621a43c859f0858d7f
1 new obsolescence markers
obsoleted 1 changesets
$ hg phase -pr t1
$ hg phase -fsr t2
Make a helper function to check cache damage invariants:
- command output shouldn't change
- cache should be present after first use
- corruption/repair should be silent (no exceptions or warnings)
- cache should survive deletion, overwrite, and append
- unreadable / unwriteable caches should be ignored
- cache should be rebuilt after corruption
$ damage() {
> CMD=$1
> CACHE=.hg/cache/$2
> CLEAN=$3
> hg $CMD > before
> test -f $CACHE || echo "not present"
> echo bad > $CACHE
> test -z "$CLEAN" || $CLEAN
> hg $CMD > after
> "$RUNTESTDIR/pdiff" before after || echo "*** overwrite corruption"
> echo corruption >> $CACHE
> test -z "$CLEAN" || $CLEAN
> hg $CMD > after
> "$RUNTESTDIR/pdiff" before after || echo "*** append corruption"
> rm $CACHE
> mkdir $CACHE
> test -z "$CLEAN" || $CLEAN
> hg $CMD > after
> "$RUNTESTDIR/pdiff" before after || echo "*** read-only corruption"
> test -d $CACHE || echo "*** directory clobbered"
> rmdir $CACHE
> test -z "$CLEAN" || $CLEAN
> hg $CMD > after
> "$RUNTESTDIR/pdiff" before after || echo "*** missing corruption"
> test -f $CACHE || echo "not rebuilt"
> }
Beat up tags caches:
$ damage "tags --hidden" tags2
$ damage tags tags2-visible
$ damage "tag -f t3" hgtagsfnodes1
1 new orphan changesets
1 new orphan changesets
1 new orphan changesets
1 new orphan changesets
1 new orphan changesets
Beat up branch caches:
$ damage branches branch2-base "rm .hg/cache/branch2-[vs]*"
$ damage branches branch2-served "rm .hg/cache/branch2-[bv]*"
$ damage branches branch2-visible
$ damage "log -r branch(.)" rbc-names-v1
$ damage "log -r branch(default)" rbc-names-v1
$ damage "log -r branch(b2)" rbc-revs-v1
We currently can't detect an rbc cache with unknown names:
$ damage "log -qr branch(b2)" rbc-names-v1
--- before * (glob)
+++ after * (glob)
@@ -1,8 +?,0 @@ (glob)
-2:5fb7d38b9dc4
-3:60b597ffdafa
-4:b1174d11b69e
-5:6354685872c0
-6:5ebc725f1bef
-7:7b76eec2f273
-8:ef3428d9d644
-9:ba7a936bc03c
*** append corruption