merge: forcefully mark files that we get from the second parent as dirty After a hg merge, we want to include in the commit all the files that we got from the second parent, so that we have the correct file-level history. To make them visible to hg commit, we try to mark them as dirty. Unfortunately, right now we can't really mark them as dirty[1] - the best we can do is to mark them as needing a full comparison of their contents, but they will still be considered clean if they happen to be identical to the version in the first parent. This changeset extends the dirstate format in a compatible way, so that we can mark a file as dirty: Right now we use a negative file size to indicate we don't have valid stat data for this entry. In practice, this size is always -1. This patch uses -2 to indicate that the entry is dirty. Older versions of hg won't choke on this dirstate, but they may happily mark the file as clean after a full comparison, destroying all of our hard work. The patch adds a dirstate.normallookup method with the semantics of the current normaldirty, and changes normaldirty to forcefully mark the entry as dirty. This should fix issue522. [1] - well, we could put them in state 'm', but that state has a different meaning.

adding a
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hg cat [OPTION]... FILE...

output the current or given revision of files

    Print the specified files as they were at the given revision.
    If no revision is given, the parent of the working directory is used,
    or tip if no revision is checked out.

    Output may be to a file, in which case the name of the file is
    given using a format string.  The formatting rules are the same as
    for the export command, with the following additions:

    %s   basename of file being printed
    %d   dirname of file being printed, or '.' if in repo root
    %p   root-relative path name of file being printed

options:

 -o --output   print output to file with formatted name
 -r --rev      print the given revision
 -I --include  include names matching the given patterns
 -X --exclude  exclude names matching the given patterns

use "hg -v help cat" to show global options
% [defaults]
a
a
% no repo
abort: There is no Mercurial repository here (.hg not found)!