Re: C-x v i bug

[Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>]

Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> writes:

  > On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 09:40 -0800, Dan Nicolaescu wrote:
  > > Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> writes:
  > > 
  > >   > On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 07:54 -0800, Dan Nicolaescu wrote:
  > >   > > Martin Geisler <mg@lazybytes.net> writes:
  > >   > > 
  > >   > >   > Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu> writes:
  > >   > >   > 
  > >   > >   > > Let's first talk about the original problem that started this
  > >   > >   > > discussion.
  > >   > >   > >
  > >   > >   > > When a file in a directory that is under mercurial control is opened
  > >   > >   > > in emacs, emacs runs "hg status FILE" so that it knows if it's
  > >   > >   > > registered or not, if it's modified, etc.
  > >   > >   > >
  > >   > >   > > Any user settings in .hgrc should be irrelevant to the above. Right?
  > >   > >   > 
  > >   > >   > Right. Many people use the color extension to get better feedback from
  > >   > >   > 'hg status', but if Emacs sets TERM=dumb, then the extension will
  > >   > >   > disable itself. I'm just mentioning color to say that there are useful
  > >   > >   > extensions out there that modify even basic commands like 'hg status'.
  > >   > >   > 
  > >   > >   > > It's desirable that this is as fast as possible, so processing .hgrc,
  > >   > >   > > initializing plugins will just waste time.
  > >   > >   > > After that emacs will want to know the version number for the file, for that
  > >   > >   > > it runs "hg log -l1 FILE", and parse it from the output.
  > >   > >   > > Any user settings in .hgrc should be irrelevant for this command.  Right?
  > >   > >   > 
  > >   > >   > Right, and it's even quite important that you disable localization (run
  > >   > >   > hg with LANGUAGE=C in the environment). Otherwise you'll end up parsing:
  > >   > >   > 
  > >   > >   >   % hg log -l1 README
  > >   > >   >   ændring:     9586:a41f2840f9c6
  > >   > >   >   bruger:      Lee Cantey <lcantey@gmail.com>
  > >   > >   >   dato:        Tue Oct 13 12:27:50 2009 -0700
  > >   > >   >   uddrag:      README: revert accidental commit
  > >   > >   > 
  > >   > >   > The user could also very well have installed a different default style
  > >   > >   > by setting ui.style. On the command line it's done line this:
  > >   > > 
  > >   > > Thank you, this was very useful in taking care of some issues in emacs.
  > >   > > 
  > >   > >   >   % hg log -l1 README --style=compact
  > >   > >   >   9586   a41f2840f9c6   2009-10-13 12:27 -0700   lcantey
  > >   > >   >     README: revert accidental commit
  > >   > >   > 
  > >   > >   > > [too bad that the status and version number are not available from a
  > >   > >   > > single command...]
  > >   > >   > 
  > >   > >   > Well, you know, files don't really have a version number with modern
  > >   > >   > version control systems. The entire tree has a version number... You can
  > >   > >   > of course ask about when a file was last touched, but I think that
  > >   > >   > information is getting more and more irrelevant these days.
  > >   > > 
  > >   > > In emacs the generic Version Control layer needs a version number in some case.
  > >   > > Here's an example from a bug report:
  > >   > > 
  > >   > > cd  /tmp
  > >   > > mkdir hgtest2
  > >   > > cd hgtest2
  > >   > > hg init
  > >   > > echo foo > foo.txt
  > >   > > hg add foo.txt
  > >   > > hg commit -m "Added foo.txt"
  > >   > > hg branch bar
  > >   > > echo bar > foo.txt
  > >   > > hg commit -m "Changed foo to bar"
  > >   > > hg update -r default
  > >   > > echo frobozz > frobozz.txt
  > >   > > hg add frobozz.txt
  > >   > > hg commit -m "Added frobozz.txt"
  > >   > > 
  > >   > > 
  > >   > > now open the file mkdir /tmp/hgtest2/foo.txt and ask to see the
  > >   > > annotated version, emacs does that by running
  > >   > > 
  > >   > > hg annotate -r REVISION foo.txt
  > >   > >
  > >   > > How can REVISION be obtained in this case?
  > >   > > It should be "0", but
  > >   > > hg log -l1 foo.txt
  > >   > > does not show that...
  > >   > 
  > >   > Version numbers are not per-file in Mercurial. The number you should use
  > >   > is the global number (or numbers!) reported by hg parents. This revision
  > >   > is also known as '.', eg 'hg annotate -r . foo.txt'. 
  > > 
  > > . is not usable in all cases.   For the example above:
  > > 
  > > hg log -r . foo.txt 
  > > 
  > > does not work, it does not show anything.
  > 
  > I just tested it with the above commands and it works at least as far
  > back as 1.0.

 cat foo.txt
foo
$ hg parents foo.txt 
changeset:   0:1ac3a9e3757e
user:        blah@blah.com
date:        Thu Dec 17 08:06:39 2009 -0800
summary:     Added foo.txt

$ hg log foo.txt 
changeset:   1:6d88f588d323
branch:      bar
user:        blah@blah.com
date:        Thu Dec 17 08:06:39 2009 -0800
summary:     Changed foo to bar

changeset:   0:1ac3a9e3757e
user:        blah@blah.com
date:        Thu Dec 17 08:06:39 2009 -0800
summary:     Added foo.txt

$ hg log -r . foo.txt 
$ env HGRC= hg log -r . foo.txt
$ hg --version
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Is your output different.