tests/fakepatchtime.py

exchange: support sorting URLs by client-side preferences

Not all bundles are appropriate for all clients. For example, someone
with a slow Internet connection may want to prefer bz2 bundles over gzip
bundles because they are smaller and don't take as long to transfer.
This is information that a server cannot know on its own. So, we invent
a mechanism for "preferring" server-advertised URLs based on their
attributes.

We could invent a negotiation between client and server where the client
sends its preferences and the sorting/filtering is done server-side.
However, this feels complex. We can avoid complicating the wire protocol
and exposing ourselves to backwards compatible concerns by performing
the sorting locally.

This patch defines a new config option for expressing preferred
attributes in server-advertised bundles.

At Mozilla, we leverage this feature so clients in fast data centers
prefer uncompressed bundles. (We advertise gzip bundles first because
that is a reasonable default.)

I consider this an advanced feature. I'm on the fence as to whether it
should be documented in `hg help config`.

# extension to emulate invoking 'patch.internalpatch()' at the time
# specified by '[fakepatchtime] fakenow'

from mercurial import extensions, patch as patchmod, util

def internalpatch(orig, ui, repo, patchobj, strip,
                  prefix='', files=None,
                  eolmode='strict', similarity=0):
    if files is None:
        files = set()
    r = orig(ui, repo, patchobj, strip,
             prefix=prefix, files=files,
             eolmode=eolmode, similarity=similarity)

    fakenow = ui.config('fakepatchtime', 'fakenow')
    if fakenow:
        # parsing 'fakenow' in YYYYmmddHHMM format makes comparison between
        # 'fakenow' value and 'touch -t YYYYmmddHHMM' argument easy
        fakenow = util.parsedate(fakenow, ['%Y%m%d%H%M'])[0]
        for f in files:
            repo.wvfs.utime(f, (fakenow, fakenow))

    return r

def extsetup(ui):
    extensions.wrapfunction(patchmod, 'internalpatch', internalpatch)