tests/README

branchmap: allow to use cache of subset

Filtered repository are *subset* of unfiltered repository. This means that a
filtered branchmap could be use to compute the unfiltered version.

And filtered version happen to be subset of each other:
- "all() - unserved()" is a subset of "all() - hidden()"
- "all() - hidden()" is a subset of "all()"

This means that branchmap with "unfiltered" filter can be used as a base for
"hidden" branchmap that itself could be used as a base for unfiltered
branchmap.

   unserved < hidden < None

This changeset implements this mechanism. If the on disk branchcache is not valid
we use the branchcache of the nearest subset as base instead of computing it from
scratch. Such fallback can be cascaded multiple time is necessary.

Note that both "hidden" and "unserved" set are a bit volatile. We will add more
stable filtering in next changesets.

This changeset enables collaboration between no filtering and "unserved"
filtering. Fixing performance regression introduced by 47f00b0de337

To run the tests, do:

cd tests/
python run-tests.py

See http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/WritingTests for
more information on writing tests.