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.
test children command
$ cat <<EOF >> $HGRCPATH
> [extensions]
> children =
> EOF
init
$ hg init t
$ cd t
no working directory
$ hg children
setup
$ echo 0 > file0
$ hg ci -qAm 0 -d '0 0'
$ echo 1 > file1
$ hg ci -qAm 1 -d '1 0'
$ echo 2 >> file0
$ hg ci -qAm 2 -d '2 0'
$ hg co null
0 files updated, 0 files merged, 2 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ echo 3 > file3
$ hg ci -qAm 3 -d '3 0'
hg children at revision 3 (tip)
$ hg children
$ hg co null
0 files updated, 0 files merged, 1 files removed, 0 files unresolved
hg children at nullrev (should be 0 and 3)
$ hg children
changeset: 0:4df8521a7374
user: test
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
summary: 0
changeset: 3:e2962852269d
tag: tip
parent: -1:000000000000
user: test
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:03 1970 +0000
summary: 3
$ hg co 1
2 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
hg children at revision 1 (should be 2)
$ hg children
changeset: 2:8f5eea5023c2
user: test
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:02 1970 +0000
summary: 2
$ hg co 2
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
hg children at revision 2 (other head)
$ hg children
$ for i in null 0 1 2 3 '2^'; do
> echo "hg children -r '$i'"
> hg children -r $i
> done
hg children -r 'null'
changeset: 0:4df8521a7374
user: test
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
summary: 0
changeset: 3:e2962852269d
tag: tip
parent: -1:000000000000
user: test
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:03 1970 +0000
summary: 3
hg children -r '0'
changeset: 1:708c093edef0
user: test
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:01 1970 +0000
summary: 1
hg children -r '1'
changeset: 2:8f5eea5023c2
user: test
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:02 1970 +0000
summary: 2
hg children -r '2'
hg children -r '3'
hg children -r '2^'
changeset: 2:8f5eea5023c2
user: test
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:02 1970 +0000
summary: 2
hg children -r 0 file0 (should be 2)
$ hg children -r 0 file0
changeset: 2:8f5eea5023c2
user: test
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:02 1970 +0000
summary: 2
hg children -r 1 file0 (should be 2)
$ hg children -r 1 file0
changeset: 2:8f5eea5023c2
user: test
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:02 1970 +0000
summary: 2
$ hg co 0
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 1 files removed, 0 files unresolved
hg children file0 at revision 0 (should be 2)
$ hg children file0
changeset: 2:8f5eea5023c2
user: test
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:02 1970 +0000
summary: 2
should be compatible with templater (don't pass fctx to displayer)
$ hg children file0 -Tdefault
changeset: 2:8f5eea5023c2
user: test
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:02 1970 +0000
summary: 2
$ cd ..