tests/test-convert-svn-branches.t

hgwebdir: avoid systematic full garbage collection

Forcing a systematic full garbage collection upon each request
can serioulsy harm performance. This is reported as
https://bz.mercurial-scm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6075

With this change we're performing the full collection according
to a new setting, `experimental.web.full-garbage-collection-rate`.
The default value is 1, which doesn't change the behavior and will
allow us to test on real use cases. If the value is 0, no full garbage
collection occurs.

Regardless of the value of the setting, a partial garbage collection
still occurs upon each request (not attempting to collect objects from
the oldest generation). This should be enough to take care of
reference cycles that have been created by the last request
(assessment of this requires changing the setting, not to be 1).

In my experience chasing memory leaks in Mercurial servers,
the full collection never reclaimed any memory, but this is with
Python 3 and biased towards small repositories.

On the other hand, as explained in the Python developer docs [1],
frequent full collections are very harmful in terms of performance if
lots of objects survive the collection, and hence stay in the
oldest generation. Note that `gc.collect()` is indeed trying to
collect the oldest generation [2]. This happens usually in two cases:

- unwanted lingering objects (i.e., an actual memory leak that
  the GC cannot do anything about). Sadly, we have lots of those
  these days.
- desireable long-term objects, typically in caches (not inner caches
  carried by repositories, which should be collected with them). This
  is a subject of interest for the Heptapod project.

In short, the flat rate that this change still permits is
probably a bad idea in most cases, and the default value can
be tweaked later on (or even be set to 0) according to experiments
in the wild.

The test is inspired from test-hgwebdir-paths.py

[1] https://devguide.python.org/garbage_collector/#collecting-the-oldest-generation
[2] https://docs.python.org/3/library/gc.html#gc.collect

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D11204

#require svn svn-bindings

  $ cat >> $HGRCPATH <<EOF
  > [extensions]
  > convert =
  > EOF

  $ svnadmin create svn-repo
  $ svnadmin load -q svn-repo < "$TESTDIR/svn/branches.svndump"

Convert trunk and branches

  $ cat > branchmap <<EOF
  > old3 newbranch
  > 
  > 
  > EOF
  $ hg convert --branchmap=branchmap --datesort -r 10 svn-repo A-hg
  initializing destination A-hg repository
  scanning source...
  sorting...
  converting...
  10 init projA
  9 hello
  8 branch trunk, remove c and dir
  7 change a
  6 change b
  5 move and update c
  4 move and update c
  3 change b again
  2 move to old2
  1 move back to old
  0 last change to a

Test template keywords

  $ hg -R A-hg log --template '{rev} {svnuuid}{svnpath}@{svnrev}\n'
  10 644ede6c-2b81-4367-9dc8-d786514f2cde/trunk@10
  9 644ede6c-2b81-4367-9dc8-d786514f2cde/branches/old@9
  8 644ede6c-2b81-4367-9dc8-d786514f2cde/branches/old2@8
  7 644ede6c-2b81-4367-9dc8-d786514f2cde/branches/old@7
  6 644ede6c-2b81-4367-9dc8-d786514f2cde/trunk@6
  5 644ede6c-2b81-4367-9dc8-d786514f2cde/branches/old@6
  4 644ede6c-2b81-4367-9dc8-d786514f2cde/branches/old@5
  3 644ede6c-2b81-4367-9dc8-d786514f2cde/trunk@4
  2 644ede6c-2b81-4367-9dc8-d786514f2cde/branches/old@3
  1 644ede6c-2b81-4367-9dc8-d786514f2cde/trunk@2
  0 644ede6c-2b81-4367-9dc8-d786514f2cde/trunk@1

Convert again

  $ hg convert --branchmap=branchmap --datesort svn-repo A-hg
  scanning source...
  sorting...
  converting...
  0 branch trunk@1 into old3

  $ cd A-hg
  $ hg log -G --template 'branch={branches} {rev} {desc|firstline} files: {files}\n'
  o  branch=newbranch 11 branch trunk@1 into old3 files:
  |
  | o  branch= 10 last change to a files: a
  | |
  | | o  branch=old 9 move back to old files:
  | | |
  | | o  branch=old2 8 move to old2 files:
  | | |
  | | o  branch=old 7 change b again files: b
  | | |
  | o |  branch= 6 move and update c files: b
  | | |
  | | o  branch=old 5 move and update c files: c
  | | |
  | | o  branch=old 4 change b files: b
  | | |
  | o |  branch= 3 change a files: a
  | | |
  | | o  branch=old 2 branch trunk, remove c and dir files: c
  | |/
  | o  branch= 1 hello files: a b c dir/e
  |/
  o  branch= 0 init projA files:
  

  $ hg branches
  newbranch                     11:a6d7cc050ad1
  default                       10:6e2b33404495
  old                            9:1b494af68c0b
  old2                           8:5be40b8dcbf6 (inactive)
  $ hg tags -q
  tip
  $ cd ..

Test hg failing to call itself

  $ HG=foobar hg convert svn-repo B-hg 2>&1 | grep abort
  abort: Mercurial failed to run itself, check hg executable is in PATH

Convert 'trunk' to branch other than 'default'

  $ cat > branchmap <<EOF
  > default hgtrunk
  > 
  > 
  > EOF
  $ hg convert --branchmap=branchmap --datesort -r 10 svn-repo C-hg
  initializing destination C-hg repository
  scanning source...
  sorting...
  converting...
  10 init projA
  9 hello
  8 branch trunk, remove c and dir
  7 change a
  6 change b
  5 move and update c
  4 move and update c
  3 change b again
  2 move to old2
  1 move back to old
  0 last change to a

  $ cd C-hg
  $ hg branches --template '{branch}\n'
  hgtrunk
  old
  old2
  $ cd ..