D2964: context: change default changeid from old form '' to '.'

[martinvonz (Martin von Zweigbergk)]

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REVISION SUMMARY
  I don't think I've seen repo[''] in the codebase at least in the last
  two years.

REPOSITORY
  rHG Mercurial

REVISION DETAIL
  https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D2964

AFFECTED FILES
  mercurial/context.py

CHANGE DETAILS

diff --git a/mercurial/context.py b/mercurial/context.py
--- a/mercurial/context.py
+++ b/mercurial/context.py
@@ -415,7 +415,7 @@
     """A changecontext object makes access to data related to a particular
     changeset convenient. It represents a read-only context already present in
     the repo."""
-    def __init__(self, repo, changeid=''):
+    def __init__(self, repo, changeid='.'):
         """changeid is a revision number, node, or tag"""
 
         # since basectx.__new__ already took care of copying the object, we



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