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Teach walk code about absolute paths.
The first consequence of this is that absolute and relative paths now
all work in the same way. The second is that paths that lie outside
the repository now cause an error to be reported, instead of something
arbitrary and expensive being done.
Internally, all of the serious work is in the util package. The new
canonpath function takes an arbitrary path and either returns a
canonical path or raises an error. Because it needs to know where the
repository root is, it must be fed a repository or dirstate object, which
has given commands.matchpats and friends a new parameter to pass along.
The util.matcher function uses this to canonicalise globs and relative
path names.
Meanwhile, I've moved the Abort exception from commands to util, and
killed off the redundant util.CommandError exception.
author | Bryan O'Sullivan <bos@serpentine.com> |
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date | Sun, 07 Aug 2005 12:43:11 -0800 |
parents | c084cfbb2389 |
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466 | 1 HGMERGE(1) |
2 ========== | |
3 Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> | |
4 v0.1, 27 May 2005 | |
5 | |
6 NAME | |
7 ---- | |
8 hgmerge - default wrapper to merge files in Mercurial SCM system | |
9 | |
10 SYNOPSIS | |
11 -------- | |
12 'hgmerge' local ancestor remote | |
13 | |
14 DESCRIPTION | |
15 ----------- | |
16 The hgmerge(1) command provides a graphical interface to merge files in the | |
17 Mercurial system. It is a simple wrapper around kdiff3, merge(1) and tkdiff(1), | |
18 or simply diff(1) and patch(1) depending on what is present on the system. | |
19 | |
20 hgmerge(1) is used by the Mercurial SCM if the environment variable HGMERGE is | |
21 not set. | |
22 | |
23 AUTHOR | |
24 ------ | |
25 Written by Vincent Danjean <Vincent.Danjean@free.fr> | |
26 | |
27 SEE ALSO | |
28 -------- | |
29 hg(1) - the command line interface to Mercurial SCM | |
30 | |
31 COPYING | |
32 ------- | |
33 Copyright (C) 2005 Matt Mackall. | |
34 Free use of this software is granted under the terms of the GNU General | |
35 Public License (GPL). |