commit: allow to close branch when committing change over a closed head
Otherwise, an explicit other commit become necessary, which seems both silly and
verbose.
This is useful when merging closed heads on the same branches, for example when
merging multiple repositories together.
$ cat >> $HGRCPATH << EOF
> [extensions]
> absorb=
> EOF
Abort absorb if there is an unfinished operation.
$ hg init abortunresolved
$ cd abortunresolved
$ echo "foo1" > foo.whole
$ hg commit -Aqm "foo 1"
$ hg update null
0 files updated, 0 files merged, 1 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ echo "foo2" > foo.whole
$ hg commit -Aqm "foo 2"
$ hg --config extensions.rebase= rebase -r 1 -d 0
rebasing 1:c3b6dc0e177a tip "foo 2"
merging foo.whole
warning: conflicts while merging foo.whole! (edit, then use 'hg resolve --mark')
unresolved conflicts (see 'hg resolve', then 'hg rebase --continue')
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$ hg --config extensions.rebase= absorb
abort: rebase in progress
(use 'hg rebase --continue', 'hg rebase --abort', or 'hg rebase --stop')
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