context.status: avoid de- and reconstructing status tuple We can just modify the status tuple we got from dirstate.status() instead of deconstructing it and constructing a new instance, thereby simplifying the code a little.

context.status: make _dirstatestatus() return an status tuple Letting _dirstatestatus() return an scmutil.status instance also means that _buildstatus() will always return such an instance, so we can remove the conversion from the call sites.

context.status: wipe deleted/unknown/ignored fields when reversed It makes no sense to request reverse status (i.e. changes from the working copy to its parent) and then look at the deleted, unknown or ignored fields. If you do, you would get the result from the forward status (changes from parent to the working copy). Instead of giving a nonsensical answer to a nonsensical question, it seems a little saner to return empty lists. It might be best if we could prevent the caller accessing these lists, but it's doubtful it's worth the trouble.

patch.trydiff: add support for noprefix

mdiff.unidiff: add support for noprefix

diff: add a --noprefix option See previous patch descriptions for the motivation. The tests reflect the current state of the world -- as we add support we'll see changes in the test output.

patch.diffopts: add support for noprefix In an upcoming patch we'll enable support as an option to 'hg diff' as well. The tests reflect the current state of the world -- as we add support we'll see changes in the test output.

patch.diffopts: allow a setting to be forced in plain mode Upcoming patches will add an option that will almost certainly break diff output parsers when enabled. Add support for forcing an option to something in plain mode, as a fallback. Options passed in via the CLI are not affected, though -- it is assumed that any script passing the option in explicitly knows what it is doing.

patch.diffopts: break get function into if statements We're going to add another condition here, and with the current structure that becomes just too confusing.

mdiff.diffopts: add a new noprefix option By popular demand, we introduce an option to disable the 'a/' and 'b/' prefixes in diff output. This makes copying and pasting filenames from diff output easier. This option will be implemented and documented in upcoming patches. To ensure that existing scripts that parse output don't break, we will ensure that this prefix is disabled in plain mode. A straight 'hg export | hg import' without HGPLAIN=1 will still be broken though, but there's little that can be done about that.