mercurial/node.py

util._matcher: speed up regexp matching.

In 4babaa52badf, Benoit made a change that substantially slows matching
when a big .hgignore file is in play, because it calls into the regexp
matching engine potentially hundreds of times per file to be matched.

I've partly rolled back his change, so that we only call into the matcher
once per file, but preserved the ability to report a meaningful error
message if there's a syntax error in the regexp.

"""
node.py - basic nodeid manipulation for mercurial

Copyright 2005, 2006 Matt Mackall <[e-mail]>

This software may be used and distributed according to the terms
of the GNU General Public License, incorporated herein by reference.
"""

import binascii

nullrev = -1
nullid = "\0" * 20

def hex(node):
    return binascii.hexlify(node)

def bin(node):
    return binascii.unhexlify(node)

def short(node):
    return hex(node[:6])