effectflag: allow to save effect of change in obsmarkers
Obsmarkers lack a precious information, what are the changes between
the source and the destination. This could be several thing:
- The description has changed, with a amend -e for example
- The parent has changed, with a rebase for example
- The content has changed, with a amend for example
- The meta, like the user, has change, with a amend -u for example
Or any combination of them.
We hijack the createobsmarkers in order to compute the modification
and store the effect flag which is basically a bitfield of the
changes list above and we store it in the metadata for the moment.
The advantage of computing the flag just before creating the obs marker
is that all commands will immediately be compatible and we can start
working on the UI display of the flag. As a future optimization,
the commands will be able to pass the flag directly or data to help computing
them, for example amend knows if the description has changed or rebase now if
the parent has changed, virtually removing the overhead.
To start simple, this patch add the detection and storage of the effect flag
when the description has changed. And hide it behind an experimental flag
disabled by default 'experimental.evolution.effect-flags'. More flag will
follow.
Topic Extension
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This packages also provides the ``topic`` experiment in an independent
extension. It implements a new experimental concept to provide lightweight
feature branches for the mutable parts of the history. The experiments is still
at an early stage and have significant usability and performance issues when
enabled.
How to Install
==============
The ``topic`` extension is included into the ``evolve` package, so the same instruction apply.
Using Pip
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You can install the latest version using pip::
$ pip install --user hg-evolve
Then just enable it in you hgrc::
$ hg config --edit # adds the two line below:
[extensions]
topic =
From Source
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To install a local version from source::
$ hg clone https://www.mercurial-scm.org/repo/evolve/
$ cd evolve
$ make install-home
Enable
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The topic extensions is included in the evolve package. See the install instruction for evolve.
Then enable it in you configuration::
$ hg config --edit # adds the two line below:
[extensions]
topic =
Documentation
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* See 'hg help -e topic' for a generic help.
* See 'hg help topics' and 'hg help stack' for help on specific commands.
* See the 'tests/test-topic-tutorial.t' file for a quick tutorial.