README
author Alexis S. L. Carvalho <alexis@cecm.usp.br>
Sat, 09 Jun 2007 01:04:28 -0300
changeset 4531 b51a8138292a
parent 3935 1158d7018052
child 8936 1de6e7e1bb9f
permissions -rw-r--r--
Avoid extra filelogs entries. Right now, there are some situations in which localrepo.filecommit can create filelog entries even though they're not needed. For example: - permissions for a file have changed; - qrefresh can create a filelog entry identical to its parent (see the added test); - convert-repo creates extra filelog entries in every merge where the first parent has added files (for example, changeset ebebe9577a1a of the kernel repo added extra filelog entries to files in the arch/blackfin directory, even though the merge should only touch the drivers/ata directory). This makes "hg log file" in a converted repo less useful than it could be, since it may mention many merges that don't actually touch that specific file. They all come from the same basic problem: localrepo.commit (through filecommit) creates new filelog entries for all files passed to it (except for some cases during a merge). Patch and test case provided by Benoit. This should fix issue351.

Basic install:

 $ make            # see install targets
 $ make install    # do a system-wide install
 $ hg debuginstall # sanity-check setup
 $ hg              # see help

See http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/ for detailed installation
instructions, platform-specific notes, and Mercurial user information.