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 <<EOF >> $HGRCPATH
> [extensions]
> mq =
> [mq]
> git = keep
> EOF
$ hg init a
$ cd a
$ echo 'base' > base
$ hg ci -Ambase
adding base
$ hg qnew -mmqbase mqbase
$ echo 'patched' > base
$ hg qrefresh
qdiff:
$ hg qdiff
diff -r d20a80d4def3 base
--- a/base Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/base* (glob)
@@ -1,1 +1,1 @@
-base
+patched
qdiff dirname:
$ hg qdiff --nodates .
diff -r d20a80d4def3 base
--- a/base
+++ b/base
@@ -1,1 +1,1 @@
-base
+patched
qdiff filename:
$ hg qdiff --nodates base
diff -r d20a80d4def3 base
--- a/base
+++ b/base
@@ -1,1 +1,1 @@
-base
+patched
$ hg revert -a
$ hg qpop
popping mqbase
patch queue now empty
$ hg qdelete mqbase
$ printf '1\n2\n3\n4\nhello world\ngoodbye world\n7\n8\n9\n' > lines
$ hg ci -Amlines -d '2 0'
adding lines
$ hg qnew -mmqbase2 mqbase2
$ printf '\n\n1\n2\n3\n4\nhello world\n goodbye world\n7\n8\n9\n' > lines
$ hg qdiff --nodates -U 1
diff -r b0c220e1cf43 lines
--- a/lines
+++ b/lines
@@ -1,1 +1,3 @@
+
+
1
@@ -4,4 +6,4 @@
4
-hello world
-goodbye world
+hello world
+ goodbye world
7
$ hg qdiff --nodates -b
diff -r b0c220e1cf43 lines
--- a/lines
+++ b/lines
@@ -1,9 +1,11 @@
+
+
1
2
3
4
hello world
-goodbye world
+ goodbye world
7
8
9
$ hg qdiff --nodates -U 1 -B
diff -r b0c220e1cf43 lines
--- a/lines
+++ b/lines
@@ -4,4 +4,4 @@
4
-hello world
-goodbye world
+hello world
+ goodbye world
7
$ hg qdiff --nodates -w
diff -r b0c220e1cf43 lines
--- a/lines
+++ b/lines
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+
+
1
2
3
$ hg qdiff --nodates --reverse
diff -r b0c220e1cf43 lines
--- a/lines
+++ b/lines
@@ -1,11 +1,9 @@
-
-
1
2
3
4
-hello world
- goodbye world
+hello world
+goodbye world
7
8
9
qdiff preserve existing git flag:
$ hg qrefresh --git
$ echo a >> lines
$ hg qdiff
diff --git a/lines b/lines
--- a/lines
+++ b/lines
@@ -1,9 +1,12 @@
+
+
1
2
3
4
-hello world
-goodbye world
+hello world
+ goodbye world
7
8
9
+a
$ hg qdiff --stat
lines | 7 +++++--
1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
$ hg qrefresh
qdiff when file deleted (but not removed) in working dir:
$ hg qnew deleted-file
$ echo a > newfile
$ hg add newfile
$ hg qrefresh
$ rm newfile
$ hg qdiff
$ cd ..