stablesort: introduce a mergepoint based method focused on head
The things we needs for stable range is head centric. So we simplify the issue
by focussing on head.
#!/bin/bash
set -euox pipefail
unset GREP_OPTIONS
NOTOPIC="--config experimental.topic-mode=ignore"
compatbranches=`hg branches --quiet | grep 'mercurial-' | grep -v ':' | sort -n --reverse`
prev='stable'
for branch in $compatbranches; do
hg up $branch
hg merge $prev
hg commit -m "test-compat: merge $prev into $branch"
prev=$branch
done