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.
$ unset HGUSER
$ EMAIL="My Name <myname@example.com>"
$ export EMAIL
$ hg init test
$ cd test
$ touch asdf
$ hg add asdf
$ hg commit -m commit-1
$ hg tip
changeset: 0:53f268a58230
tag: tip
user: My Name <myname@example.com>
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
summary: commit-1
$ unset EMAIL
$ echo 1234 > asdf
$ hg commit -u "foo@bar.com" -m commit-1
$ hg tip
changeset: 1:3871b2a9e9bf
tag: tip
user: foo@bar.com
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
summary: commit-1
$ echo "[ui]" >> .hg/hgrc
$ echo "username = foobar <foo@bar.com>" >> .hg/hgrc
$ echo 12 > asdf
$ hg commit -m commit-1
$ hg tip
changeset: 2:8eeac6695c1c
tag: tip
user: foobar <foo@bar.com>
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
summary: commit-1
$ echo 1 > asdf
$ hg commit -u "foo@bar.com" -m commit-1
$ hg tip
changeset: 3:957606a725e4
tag: tip
user: foo@bar.com
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
summary: commit-1
$ echo 123 > asdf
$ echo "[ui]" > .hg/hgrc
$ echo "username = " >> .hg/hgrc
$ hg commit -m commit-1
abort: no username supplied
(use 'hg config --edit' to set your username)
[255]
# test alternate config var
$ echo 1234 > asdf
$ echo "[ui]" > .hg/hgrc
$ echo "user = Foo Bar II <foo2@bar.com>" >> .hg/hgrc
$ hg commit -m commit-1
$ hg tip
changeset: 4:6f24bfb4c617
tag: tip
user: Foo Bar II <foo2@bar.com>
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
summary: commit-1
# test prompt username
$ cat > .hg/hgrc <<EOF
> [ui]
> askusername = True
> EOF
$ echo 12345 > asdf
$ hg commit --config ui.interactive=False -m ask
enter a commit username:
no username found, using '[^']*' instead (re)
$ hg rollback -q
$ hg commit --config ui.interactive=True -m ask <<EOF
> Asked User <ask@example.com>
> EOF
enter a commit username: Asked User <ask@example.com>
$ hg tip
changeset: 5:84c91d963b70
tag: tip
user: Asked User <ask@example.com>
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
summary: ask
# test no .hg/hgrc (uses generated non-interactive username)
$ echo space > asdf
$ rm .hg/hgrc
$ hg commit -m commit-1 2>&1
no username found, using '[^']*' instead (re)
$ echo space2 > asdf
$ hg commit -u ' ' -m commit-1
transaction abort!
rollback completed
abort: empty username!
[255]
# don't add tests here, previous test is unstable
$ cd ..