Fix long-standing excessive file merges Since switching to the multihead approach, we've been creating excessive file-level merges where files are marked as merged with their ancestors. This explicitly checks at commit time whether the two parent versions are linearly related, and if so, reduces the file check-in to a non-merge. Then the file is compared against the remaining parent, and, if equal, skips check-in of that file (as it's not changed). Since we're not checking in all files that were different between versions, we no longer need to mark so many files for merge. This removes most of the 'm' state marking as well. Finally, it is possible to do a tree-level merge with no file-level changes. This will happen if one user changes file A and another changes file B. Thus, if we have have two parents, we allow commit to proceed even if there are no file-level changes.

#!/bin/sh

cat <<'EOF' > merge
#!/bin/sh
echo merging for `basename $1`
EOF
chmod +x merge
HGMERGE=./merge; export HGMERGE

mkdir A1
cd A1
hg init
echo This is file foo1 > foo
echo This is file bar1 > bar
hg add foo bar
hg commit -m "commit text" -d "0 0"

cd ..
hg clone A1 B1

cd A1
rm bar
hg remove bar
hg commit -m "commit test" -d "0 0"

cd ../B1
echo This is file foo22 > foo
hg commit -m "commit test" -d "0 0"

cd ..
hg clone A1 A2
hg clone B1 B2

cd A1
hg pull ../B1
hg update -m
hg commit -m "commit test" -d "0 0"
echo bar should remain deleted.
hg manifest

cd ../B2
hg pull ../A2
hg update -m
hg commit -m "commit test" -d "0 0"
echo bar should remain deleted.
hg manifest