tests/test-strict.t

store: implement fncache basic path encoding in C

(This is not yet enabled; it will be turned on in a followup patch.)

The path encoding performed by fncache is complex and (perhaps
surprisingly) slow enough to negatively affect the overall performance
of Mercurial.

For a short path (< 120 bytes), the Python code can be reduced to a fairly
tractable state machine that either determines that nothing needs to be
done in a single pass, or performs the encoding in a second pass.

For longer paths, we avoid the more complicated hashed encoding scheme
for now, and fall back to Python.

Raw performance: I measured in a repo containing 150,000 files in its tip
manifest, with a median path name length of 57 bytes, and 95th percentile
of 96 bytes.

In this repo, the Python code takes 3.1 seconds to encode all path
names, while the hybrid C-and-Python code (called from Python) takes
0.21 seconds, for a speedup of about 14.

Across several other large repositories, I've measured the speedup from
the C code at between 26x and 40x.

For path names above 120 bytes where we must fall back to Python for
hashed encoding, the speedup is about 1.7x.  Thus absolute performance
will depend strongly on the characteristics of a particular repository.

  $ hg init

  $ echo a > a
  $ hg ci -Ama
  adding a

  $ hg an a
  0: a

  $ hg --config ui.strict=False an a
  0: a

  $ echo "[ui]" >> $HGRCPATH
  $ echo "strict=True" >> $HGRCPATH

  $ hg an a
  hg: unknown command 'an'
  Mercurial Distributed SCM
  
  basic commands:
  
   add           add the specified files on the next commit
   annotate      show changeset information by line for each file
   clone         make a copy of an existing repository
   commit        commit the specified files or all outstanding changes
   diff          diff repository (or selected files)
   export        dump the header and diffs for one or more changesets
   forget        forget the specified files on the next commit
   init          create a new repository in the given directory
   log           show revision history of entire repository or files
   merge         merge working directory with another revision
   phase         set or show the current phase name
   pull          pull changes from the specified source
   push          push changes to the specified destination
   remove        remove the specified files on the next commit
   serve         start stand-alone webserver
   status        show changed files in the working directory
   summary       summarize working directory state
   update        update working directory (or switch revisions)
  
  use "hg help" for the full list of commands or "hg -v" for details
  [255]
  $ hg annotate a
  0: a

should succeed - up is an alias, not an abbreviation

  $ hg up
  0 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved