amend: allow aborting an `amend --patch` by saving an empty file (issue5925)
This patch fixes issue5925 by allow aborting a `hg amend --patch` call by saving
an empty patch file. This is similar to aborting of `hg amend` when commit
message is empty.
Test changes demonstrate the fix.
#require test-repo
$ checkflake8() {
> if ! (which flake8 > /dev/null); then
> echo skipped: missing tool: flake8;
> exit 80;
> fi;
> };
$ checkflake8
Copied from Mercurial core (60ee2593a270)
$ cd "`dirname "$TESTDIR"`"
run flake8 if it exists; if it doesn't, then just skip
$ hg files -0 'set:(**.py or grep("^#!.*python")) - removed()' \
> -X hgext3rd/evolve/thirdparty \
> 2>/dev/null \
> | xargs -0 flake8