Git refs with names containing e.g "-" are currently not accepted
symbol names, and I don't plan to change the grammar to accept
them. Instead, let's have the user quote symbol names containing
unusual characters. That way we can keep these symbols reserved for
revset operators.
With this patch the user can do e.g. `jj diff -r '"v2.9.0-rc2"'`.
This adds `children(<set>)` and `<set>:` for the children of the given
set, and `descendants(<set>)` and `<set>:*` for the descendants of the
given set. The children and descendants are filtered to be among
ancestors of non-obsolete commits. I haven't added a way of overriding
that yet.
This is especially important now that we leak the rule names into the
`SyntaxError` message. For example, the error message when doing `jj
diff -r :` will now mention "expected parents_op, ancestors_op, or
primary". It seems much clearer with the "_op" suffixes there. Longer
term, we should think more about how we can best surface syntax errors
from the library crate.
The tests don't need any complex set up (no repo necessary), so they
can be in the `revset` module itself. I'm sure we'll need to split up
that module later (at least separate out the parsing), but that's a
separate problem.
This change adds a `non_obsolete_heads(<set>)` revset, which walks up
ancestors of the input set until it gets to a non-obsolete and
non-pruned commit. That's what we do by default in `jj log`
(i.e. without `--all`). Now we can make `jj log` use revsets and teach
it a `-r` option!
This adds `parents(foo)` and `ancestors(foo)` as alternative ways of
writing `:foo` and `*:foo`.
I haven't added support for for whitespace yet; the parsing is very
strict. The error messages will also need to be improved later.
This patch adds initial support for a DSL for specifying revisions
inspired by Mercurial's "revset" language. The initial support
includes prefix operators ":" (parents) and "*:" (ancestors) with
naive parsing of the revsets. Mercurial uses postfix operator "^" for
parent 1 just like Git does. It uses prefix operator "::" for
ancestors and the same operator as postfix operator for descendants. I
did it differently because I like the idea of using the same operator
as prefix/postfix depending on desired direction, so I wanted to apply
that to parents/children as well (and for
predecessors/successors). The "*" in the "*:" operator is copied from
regular expression syntax. Let's see how it works out. This is an
experimental VCS, after all.
I've updated the CLI to use the new revset support.
The implementation feels a little messy, but you have to start
somewhere...
