Difficulty splitting mercurial patches up - mercurial

Question

I've got a web application I want to be able to create patches for. Specifically I want to create patches for enabling specific functionality in the web server.
JAVA_OPTS="-Xms128m -Xmx256m $JAVA_OPTS -Djava.awt.headless=true -Datlassian.standalone=JIRA -Dorg.apache.jasper.runtime.BodyContentImpl.LIMIT_BUFFER=true "
# Perm Gen size needs to be increased if encountering OutOfMemoryError: PermGen problems. Specifying PermGen size is not valid on IBM JDKs
PRGDIR=`dirname $0`
JIRA_MAX_PERM_SIZE=128m
if [ -f "${PRGDIR}/permgen.sh" ]; then
echo "Detecting JVM PermGen support..."
. ${PRGDIR}/permgen.sh
if [ $JAVA_PERMGEN_SUPPORTED = "true" ]; then
echo "PermGen switch is supported. Setting to ${JIRA_MAX_PERM_SIZE}"
JAVA_OPTS="-XX:MaxPermSize=${JIRA_MAX_PERM_SIZE} ${JAVA_OPTS}"
else
echo "PermGen switch is NOT supported and will NOT be set automatically."
fi
fi
# use this if you want to import data without notifications
#JAVA_OPTS=" -Datlassian.mail.senddisabled=true -Datlassian.mail.fetchdisabled=true -Datlassian.mail.popdisabled=true $JAVA_OPTS "
export JAVA_OPTS
echo "If you encounter issues starting up JIRA Standalone Edition, please see the Troubleshooting guide at http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Installation+Troubleshooting+Guide"
What I want to do is save a patch for each individual modification I need to make to this file in such a way that the patches can be applied individually (using qpush -move) or all together (qpush -a)
I first tried the following with a clean version of the file:
hg qnew jmx.patch
Then I modified the first line of the file to include the following
-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.port=8089 -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.ssl=false -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.authenticate=false
then refreshed the patch
hg qrefresh
The popped the patch to begin work on the second modification from the clean base
hg qpop
hg qnew jelly.patch
The I modified the first line of the file to include the following
-Djira.jelly.on=true
then refreshed the patch
When I then tried to qpush the older patch, it failed to apply.
Then I tried an alternate approach, which was to first create a base patch:
hg qpop -a
hg qnew base.patch
,that added the following to the file
JMX_OPTS=
JELLY_OPTS=
JAVA_OPTS=" ${JAVA_OPTS} ${JELLY_OPTS} ${JMX_OPTS} "
,then refresh base.patch
hg qrefresh
Then create a new patch for jmx while base.patch was still applied:
hg qnew jmx.new
edit the file as follows:
JMX_OPTS=" -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.port=8089 -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.ssl=false -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.authenticate=false "
refresh the patch and pop :
hg qrefresh
hg qpop
Create new patch for jelly:
hg qnew jelly.patch
Edited the file as follows:
JELLY_OPTS=" -Djira.jelly.on=true "
refreshed the patch:
hg qrefresh
But again, when I tried to qpush the jmx.patch on top of the newly created jelly.patch, there was conflicts.
I thinking Mercurial is behaving as expected, but I'm wondering if I can structure the patches I'm making differently so they can apply individually or combined without rejection

Answer 1

Your second approach will work if you insert at least 3 empty lines between the lines you want to change.
And you could also shuffle your queue (after qpop!), apply jmx first, then jelly. You'll get "offset x lines" but the file will be correctly patched.
MQ has a hardcoded fuzz number 3 (see patchfile() in patch.py). When you have your JMX_OPTS and JELLY_OPTS in adjacent lines, MQ can't find the context in jmx.patch because it's changed in jelly.patch.