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.
$ cat >> $HGRCPATH << EOF
> [extensions]
> fastannotate=
> EOF
$ hg init repo
$ cd repo
$ for i in 0 1 2 3 4; do
> echo $i >> a
> echo $i >> b
> hg commit -A -m $i a b
> done
use the "debugbuildannotatecache" command to build annotate cache at rev 0
$ hg debugbuildannotatecache --debug --config fastannotate.mainbranch=0
fastannotate: a: 1 new changesets in the main branch
fastannotate: b: 1 new changesets in the main branch
"debugbuildannotatecache" should work with broken cache (and other files would
be built without being affected). note: linelog being broken is only noticed
when we try to append to it.
$ echo 'CORRUPT!' >> .hg/fastannotate/default/a.m
$ hg debugbuildannotatecache --debug --config fastannotate.mainbranch=1
fastannotate: a: rebuilding broken cache
fastannotate: a: 2 new changesets in the main branch
fastannotate: b: 1 new changesets in the main branch
$ echo 'CANNOT REUSE!' > .hg/fastannotate/default/a.l
$ hg debugbuildannotatecache --debug --config fastannotate.mainbranch=2
fastannotate: a: rebuilding broken cache
fastannotate: a: 3 new changesets in the main branch
fastannotate: b: 1 new changesets in the main branch
$ rm .hg/fastannotate/default/a.m
$ hg debugbuildannotatecache --debug --config fastannotate.mainbranch=3
fastannotate: a: rebuilding broken cache
fastannotate: a: 4 new changesets in the main branch
fastannotate: b: 1 new changesets in the main branch
$ rm .hg/fastannotate/default/a.l
$ hg debugbuildannotatecache --debug --config fastannotate.mainbranch=3
$ hg debugbuildannotatecache --debug --config fastannotate.mainbranch=4
fastannotate: a: rebuilding broken cache
fastannotate: a: 5 new changesets in the main branch
fastannotate: b: 1 new changesets in the main branch
"fastannotate" should deal with file corruption as well
$ rm -rf .hg/fastannotate
$ hg fastannotate --debug -r 0 a
fastannotate: a: 1 new changesets in the main branch
0: 0
$ echo 'CORRUPT!' >> .hg/fastannotate/default/a.m
$ hg fastannotate --debug -r 0 a
fastannotate: a: cache broken and deleted
fastannotate: a: 1 new changesets in the main branch
0: 0
$ echo 'CORRUPT!' > .hg/fastannotate/default/a.l
$ hg fastannotate --debug -r 1 a
fastannotate: a: cache broken and deleted
fastannotate: a: 2 new changesets in the main branch
0: 0
1: 1
$ rm .hg/fastannotate/default/a.l
$ hg fastannotate --debug -r 1 a
fastannotate: a: using fast path (resolved fctx: True)
fastannotate: a: cache broken and deleted
fastannotate: a: 2 new changesets in the main branch
0: 0
1: 1
$ rm .hg/fastannotate/default/a.m
$ hg fastannotate --debug -r 2 a
fastannotate: a: cache broken and deleted
fastannotate: a: 3 new changesets in the main branch
0: 0
1: 1
2: 2