merge: mark .hgsubstate as possibly dirty before submerge for consistency Before this patch, failure of updating subrepos may cause inconsistent ".hgsubstate". For example: 1. dirstate entry for ".hgsubstate" of the parent repo is filled with valid size/date (via "hg state" or so) 2. "hg update" is invoked at the parent repo 3. ".hgsubstate" of the parent repo is updated on the filesystem as a part of "g"(et) action in "merge.applyupdates" 4. it is assumed that size/date of ".hgsubstate" on the filesystem aren't changed from ones at (1) this is not so difficult condition, because just changing hash ids (every ids are same in length) in ".hgsubstate" doesn't change the file size of it 5. "subrepo.submerge()" is invoked to update subrepos 6. failure of updating in one of subrepos raises exception (e.g. "untracked file differs") 7. "hg update" is aborted without updating dirstate of the parent repo dirstate entry for ".hgsubstate" still holds size/date at (1) Then, ".hgsubstate" of the parent repo is treated as "CLEAN" unexpectedly, because updating ".hgsubstate" at (3) doesn't change size/date of it on the filesystem: see assumption at (4). This inconsistent ".hgsubstate" status causes unexpected behavior, for example: - "hg revert" forgets to revert ".hgsubstate" - "hg update" misunderstands that (not yet updated) subrepos diverge (then, it shows the prompt to confirm user's decision) To avoid inconsistent ".hgsubstate" status above, this patch marks ".hgsubstate" as possibly dirty before "submerge" invocation. "normallookup"-ed (= dirty) dirstate should be written out, even if processing is aborted by failure. This patch marks ".hgsubstate" as possibly dirty before "submerge", also when it is removed or merged while merging, for safety. This should prevent Mercurial from misunderstanding inconsistent ".hgsubstate" as clean. To satisfy conditions at (1) and (4) above, this patch uses "hg status --config debug.dirstate.delaywrite=2" (to fill valid size/date into dirstate) and "touch" (to fix date of the file).

  $ hg init test
  $ cd test
  $ echo foo>foo
  $ hg addremove
  adding foo
  $ hg commit -m "1"

  $ hg verify
  checking changesets
  checking manifests
  crosschecking files in changesets and manifests
  checking files
  1 files, 1 changesets, 1 total revisions

  $ hg clone . ../branch
  updating to branch default
  1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
  $ cd ../branch
  $ hg co
  0 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
  $ echo bar>>foo
  $ hg commit -m "2"

  $ cd ../test

  $ hg pull ../branch
  pulling from ../branch
  searching for changes
  adding changesets
  adding manifests
  adding file changes
  added 1 changesets with 1 changes to 1 files
  (run 'hg update' to get a working copy)

  $ hg verify
  checking changesets
  checking manifests
  crosschecking files in changesets and manifests
  checking files
  1 files, 2 changesets, 2 total revisions

  $ hg co
  1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved

  $ cat foo
  foo
  bar

  $ hg manifest --debug
  6f4310b00b9a147241b071a60c28a650827fb03d 644   foo

update to rev 0 with a date

  $ hg upd -d foo 0
  abort: you can't specify a revision and a date
  [255]

  $ cd ..