dispatch: add HGPLAIN=+strictflags to restrict early parsing of global options
If this feature is enabled, early options are parsed using the global options
table. As the parser stops processing options when non/unknown option is
encountered, it won't mistakenly take an option value as a new early option.
Still "--" can be injected to terminate the parsing (e.g. "hg -R -- log"), I
think it's unlikely to lead to an RCE.
To minimize a risk of this change, new fancyopts.earlygetopt() path is enabled
only when +strictflags is set. Also the strict parser doesn't support '--repo',
a short for '--repository' yet. This limitation will be removed later.
As this feature is backward incompatible, I decided to add a new opt-in
mechanism to HGPLAIN. I'm not pretty sure if this is the right choice, but
I'm thinking of adding +feature/-feature syntax to HGPLAIN. Alternatively,
we could add a new environment variable. Any bikeshedding is welcome.
Note that HGPLAIN=+strictflags doesn't work correctly in chg session since
command arguments are pre-processed in C. This wouldn't be easily fixed.
Mercurial supports a functional language for selecting a set of
files.
Like other file patterns, this pattern type is indicated by a prefix,
'set:'. The language supports a number of predicates which are joined
by infix operators. Parenthesis can be used for grouping.
Identifiers such as filenames or patterns must be quoted with single
or double quotes if they contain characters outside of
``[.*{}[]?/\_a-zA-Z0-9\x80-\xff]`` or if they match one of the
predefined predicates. This generally applies to file patterns other
than globs and arguments for predicates.
Special characters can be used in quoted identifiers by escaping them,
e.g., ``\n`` is interpreted as a newline. To prevent them from being
interpreted, strings can be prefixed with ``r``, e.g. ``r'...'``.
See also :hg:`help patterns`.
Operators
=========
There is a single prefix operator:
``not x``
Files not in x. Short form is ``! x``.
These are the supported infix operators:
``x and y``
The intersection of files in x and y. Short form is ``x & y``.
``x or y``
The union of files in x and y. There are two alternative short
forms: ``x | y`` and ``x + y``.
``x - y``
Files in x but not in y.
Predicates
==========
The following predicates are supported:
.. predicatesmarker
Examples
========
Some sample queries:
- Show status of files that appear to be binary in the working directory::
hg status -A "set:binary()"
- Forget files that are in .hgignore but are already tracked::
hg forget "set:hgignore() and not ignored()"
- Find text files that contain a string::
hg files "set:grep(magic) and not binary()"
- Find C files in a non-standard encoding::
hg files "set:**.c and not encoding('UTF-8')"
- Revert copies of large binary files::
hg revert "set:copied() and binary() and size('>1M')"
- Revert files that were added to the working directory::
hg revert "set:revs('wdir()', added())"
- Remove files listed in foo.lst that contain the letter a or b::
hg remove "set: 'listfile:foo.lst' and (**a* or **b*)"