[PATCH STABLE V2] update: allow update to existing branches with invalid names (issue3710)

[Kevin Bullock]

On Nov 28, 2012, at 12:31 PM, Pierre-Yves David wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 08:22:26PM +0200, Idan Kamara wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 3:21 PM, Tim Henigan <tim.henigan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> # HG changeset patch
>>> # User Tim Henigan <tim.henigan at gmail.com>
>>> # Date 1354024055 18000
>>> # Branch stable
>>> # Node ID 15c51486a402299c61ef009b7587afbb152d2c54
>>> # Parent  54cedee86e5126188b0dcfbd7015bcdca7f6c2e2
>>> update: allow update to existing branches with invalid names (issue3710)
>>> 
>>> Starting with 361ab1e2086f, users are no longer able to update a
>>> working copy to a branch named with a "bad" character (such as ':').
>>> 
>>> Prior to v2.4, it was possible to create branch names using "bad"
>>> characters, so this breaks backwards compatibility.
>>> 
>>> Mercurial must allow users to update to existing branches with bad
>>> names.  However, it should continue to prevent the creation of new
>>> branches with bad names.
>>> 
>>> A test was added to confirm that 'hg update' works as expected. The
>>> test uses a bundled repo that was created with an earlier version of
>>> Mercurial.
>> 
>> You could perhaps use inilne Python to do this test more easily:
>> 
>>>>> from mercurial import hg, ui
>>>>> r = hg.repository(ui.ui())
>>>>> r.dirstate.setbranch('a:b')
> 
> I'm not sure we care about the internal here. What matter is to not
> regresse on hg update. Isn't it?


I agree, I'd rather have the external test for this.

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