D447: templatekw: choose {latesttag} by len(changes), not date (issue5659)

[martinvonz (Martin von Zweigbergk)]

martinvonz added inline comments.

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> martinvonz wrote in templatekw.py:222
> > This should be enabled only if ptags[0][2] != ptags[1][2].
> 
> Good point. Done.
> 
> > The latesttagdistance is documented to return the longest path to the latest tag.
> 
> I'm not changing latesttagdistance (AFAIK), only the definition of latesttag.
> 
> > https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/rHGf04d179124410d491a8def230e408c3b6c98cbfc
> 
> Luckily, that's just the commit message and "hg help templates.latesttag" just says "The global tags on the most recent globally tagged ancestor of this changeset" and doesn't define what "most recent" is.

>> This should be enabled only if ptags[0][2] != ptags[1][2].
> 
> Good point. Done.

Great point, actually! See updated timings in commit message.

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  https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D447

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