Mercurial > public > mercurial-scm > hg-stable
diff mercurial/context.py @ 22389:94f77624dbb5
comments: describe ancestor consistently - avoid 'least common ancestor'
"best" is as defined by mercurial.ancestor.ancestors: furthest from a root (as
measured by longest path).
| author | Mads Kiilerich <madski@unity3d.com> |
|---|---|
| date | Tue, 19 Aug 2014 01:13:10 +0200 |
| parents | d226fe36e362 |
| children | 6f63c47cbb86 |
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--- a/mercurial/context.py Tue Aug 19 01:12:56 2014 +0200 +++ b/mercurial/context.py Tue Aug 19 01:13:10 2014 +0200 @@ -542,9 +542,11 @@ changectx=self, filelog=filelog) def ancestor(self, c2, warn=False): - """ - return the "best" ancestor context of self and c2 - """ + """return the "best" ancestor context of self and c2 + + If there are multiple candidates, it will show a message and check + merge.preferancestor configuration before falling back to the + revlog ancestor.""" # deal with workingctxs n2 = c2._node if n2 is None: @@ -1146,7 +1148,7 @@ return '' def ancestor(self, c2): - """return the ancestor context of self and c2""" + """return the "best" ancestor context of self and c2""" return self._parents[0].ancestor(c2) # punt on two parents for now def walk(self, match):