evolve: use merge.update() for resolving phase divergence
Iterating over the manifest when tree manifests and narrowness is in
play produces entries for paths outside the narrowspec that represent
trees. For example, if the tests/ directory of the hg repo was not in
the narrowspec (and the hg repo was using tree manifests, which it
doesn't), then there would be a "tests/" entry in the manifest. The
merge code deals with some of these cases. For example, it's valid to
do a merge if only the local side changes directories outside the
narrowspec. That allows rebasing a local commit onto a public commit
that had changes to the excluded paths to work.
However, _resolvephasedivergent() was iterating of the manifests,
which resulted in crashes for some of our users when they tried to
resolve phase-divergent commits (actually content-divergent commits
that became phase-divergent after the intermediate rebase). We can fix
that by relying on merge.update(), since that already handles this
case.
.. Copyright 2011 Pierre-Yves David <pierre-yves.david@ens-lyon.org>
.. Logilab SA <contact@logilab.fr>
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Good practice for (early) users of evolve
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Avoid unstability
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The less unstability you have the less you need to resolve.
Evolve is not yet able to detect and solve every situation. And your mind is
not ready neither.
Branch as much as possible
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This is not MQ; you are not constrained to linear history.
Making a branch per independent branch will help you avoid unstability
and conflict.
Rewrite your changes only
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There is no descent conflict detection and handling right now.
Rewriting other people's changesets guarantees that you will get
conflicts. Communicate with your fellow developers before trying to
touch other people's work (which is a good practice in any case).
Using multiple branches will help you to achieve this goal.
Prefer pushing unstability to touching other people changesets
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If you have children changesets from other people that you don't really care
about, prefer not altering them to risking a conflict by stabilizing them.
Do not get too confident
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This is an experimental extension and a complex concept. This is beautiful,
powerful and robust on paper, but the tool and your mind may not be prepared for
all situations yet.