tests: add tests for `hg stack` showing surprising behavior with gaps The test will help us to analyse in next commit if the things are fixed or not.

topic: check availability of obsutil.getmarkers() for portability Before this patch, topic extension causes unintentional failure with Mercurial earlier than 4.3, because obsutil.getmarkers() has been available since Mercurial 4.3 (tests for topic on mercurial-4.* branches fail, too). This breaks "minimumhgversion = '4.0'" declaration of topic extension. This patch fixes this issue in a straightforward way for simplicity on stable branch. I'm planning to centralize such portability logic in topic extension into topic/compat.py or so on default branch for efficiency at runtime, like as evolve/compat.py.

tests: add more explicit test about empty topic from publishing

convertbookmark: advertise the new command in the readme The command is in a good enough shape now.

convertbookmark: properly convert stacked bookmarks We ignores pure descendant when looking for revision to convert. This adds support for cases were a linear stack contains multiple bookmark (or un-bookmarked descendants exists). In this case, some changeset are left orphan, but we'll consider the issue as minor for now.

convertbookmark: perform all actions at the end This will make the whole operation more deterministic and robust.

converbookmark: split target computation from actual update This will allow for further refactoring helping consistency.

convertbookmark: extract the revset into a module level constant This will make it easier to read and modify the query.

convertbookmark: properly exclude public changeset Public changeset are immutable and cannot have a topic anyway.

test: add a new root changeset to all debugconvertbookmark test case We'll make this root changeset public to check the debugconvertbookmark logic in that regards. It is added in its own changeset since it massively impact all output.

tests: import section in 'test-topic-debugcb.t' We now have two levels of titles to clarify some aspect of the tests.

test: avoid using debugdrawdag in 'test-topic-debugcb.t' The 'debugdrawdag' utility adds local tags that prevent hidden changeset to get hidden. We will do without that extension for now.

tests: add more tests for debugconvertbookmark

convertbookmark: add logic to skip revisions with multiple bookmarks When a user tries to converts a bookmark to topic which is on a changeset with more bookmarks we skip that.

topics: add a new debugconvertbookmark command to convert bookmarks to topics This new command, aliased to debugcb converts bookmarks to topics. This command either accept name of a bookmark using flag '-b' or '--all'. If a bookmark is passed using '-b', the whole stack defined by that bookmark is converted to topics. If '--all' is passed, the above thing is repeated for every bookmark in the repository. If the revset which we are using unable to decides revisions of the stack and return an expty set, in that cases we are not deleting the bookmark as we are not writing any topics of the same name as that of bookmark. Also currently if a changeset has two bookmarks, than there is buggy behaviour. So these are known lackings in the current implementation which will be fixed in upcoming patches. This also adds tests for the same.

topic: support --rev argument and properly process then as user input Revisions inputed by the users should be processed using `scmutil.revrange`. This will take alias into account and allow extensions to monitor the user inputs. As a side effect, the '_changetopics' function takes revisions as argument. make the API clearer.

topic: move a status message in the right scope The finally get runs on failure so we should not advertise rewrite topic in the case. In addition the 'rewrote' variable can be undefined in the finally.

obsfate: use effect flag information for computing a better verb

compat: make it more clear that evolve need Mercurial >= minversion The message is more clear when mercurial isn't installed at all.

doc: record all the missings and strange bit we know We know the doc is not as fresh as it could be. We make sure the reader is aware too.

directaccess: fix with tree without order 1b28525e6698 removes order from tree, changing the indexes in gethashsymbols. Fix that

compat: adapt to test output changes different access pattern in 4.4 means different results. Make evolve works with mercurial core 72b5f4d53c58

compat: adapt to rebase change in coming 4.4 Make evolve works with mercurial core 72b5f4d53c58

topics: import lock as lockmods We'll need a 'lock' variable in the next changeset. we move the module out of the way ahead of time for clarity.

topics: make sure we have some restrictions on topic names This patch makes sure we don't allow topic names with just whitespaces, and other checks which we do for a bookmark.

topic: add test showing no restrictions on topic names Currently we don't have any restrictions on topic names and each of the topic name works. We want them to not work as some of them are used internally and only integers can be rev numbers too.

index: edit pass by native english speaker

topic: reword and simplify explanation of "behind"

topic: tutorial grammar fixes

doc-front-page: link to the changeset evolution section in the document The section is unlikely to be perfect, but at least it exists.

doc-front-page: use a clearer statement about the experimental status This text comes form the Mercurial wiki.

doc-front-pagE: add a paragraph about "why the extension" Let us clarify why there is an extension in the first place.