tests/test-convert-mtn

named branches: server branchmap wire protocol support (issue736)

The repository command, 'branchmap', returns a dictionary, branchname
-> [branchheads], and will be implemented for localrepo, httprepo and
sshrepo.

The following wire format is used for returning data:

branchname1 branch1head2 branch1head2 ...
branchname2 ...
...

Branch names are URL encoded to escape white space, and branch heads
are sent as hex encoded node ids. All branches and all their heads are
sent.

The background and motivation for this command is the desire for a
richer named branch semantics when pushing changesets. The details are
explained in the original proposal which is included below.


1. BACKGROUND

The algorithm currently implemented in Mercurial only considers the
graph theoretical heads when determining whether new heads are
created, rather than using the branch heads as a count (the algorithm
considers a branch head effectively closed when it is merged into
another branch or a new named branch is started from that point
onward).

Our particular problem with the algorithm is that we'd like to see the
following case working without forcing a push:

Upsteam has:

(0:dev) ---- (1:dev)
\
 `--- (2:stable)

Someone merges stable into dev:

(0:dev) ---- (1:dev) ------(3:dev)
\                         /
 `--- (2:stable) --------´

This can be pushed without --force (as it should).
Now someone else does some coding on stable (a bug fix, say):

(0:dev) ---- (1:dev) ------(3:dev)
\                          /
 `--- (2:stable) ---------´---------(4:stable)

This time we need --force to push.

We allow this to be pushed without using --force by getting all the
remote branch heads (by extending the wire protocol with a new
function).

We would, furthermore, also prefer if it is impossible to push a new
branch without --force (or a later --newbranch option so --force isn't
shoe-horned into too many disparate functions, if need be), except of
course in the case where the remote repository is empty.

This is what our patches accomplish.


2. ALTERNATIVES

We have, of course, considered some alternatives to reconstructing
enough information to decide whether we are creating new remote branch
heads, before we added the new wire protocol command.

2.1. LOOKUP ON REMOTE

The main alternative is to use the information from remote.heads() and
remote.lookup() to try to reconstruct enough graph information to
decide whether we are creating new heads. This is not adequate as
illustrated below.

Remember that each lookup is typically a request-response pair over
SSH or HTTP(S).

If we have a simple repository at the remote end like this:

(0:dev) ---- (1:dev) ---- (3:stable)
\
 `--- (2:dev)

then remote.heads() will yield [2, 3]. Assume we have nodes [0, 1, 2]
locally and want to create a new node, 4:dev, as a descendant from
(1:dev), which should be OK as 1:dev is a branch head.

If we do remote.lookup('dev') we will get [2]. Thus, we can get
information about whether a branch exists on the remote server or not,
but this does not solve our problem of figuring out whether we are
creating new heads or not.

Pushing 4:dev ought to be OK, since after the push, we still only have
two heads on branch a.

Using remote.lookup() and remote.heads() is thus not adequate to
consistently decide whether we are creating new remote heads (e.g. in
this situation the latter would never return 1:dev).

2.2. USING INCOMING TO RECONSTRUCT THE GRAPH

An alternative would be to use information equivalent to hg incoming
to get the full remote graph in addition to the local graph.

To do this, we would have to get a changegroup(subset) bundle
representing the remote end (which may be a substantial amount of
data), getting the branch heads from an instantiated bundlerepository,
deleting the bundle, and finally, we can compute the prepush logic.

While this is backwards compatible, it will cause a possibly
substantial slowdown of the push command as it first needs to pull in
all changes.


3. FURTHER ARGUMENTS IN FAVOUR OF THE BRANCHMAP WIRE-PROTOCOL EXTENSION

Currently, the commands incoming and pull, work based on the tip of a
given branch if used with "-r branchname", making it hard to get all
revisions of a certain branch only (if it has multiple heads). This
can be solved by requesting the remote's branchheads and letting the
revisions to be used with the command be these heads. This can be done
by extending the commands with a new option, e.g.:

hg pull -b branchname

which will be turned into the equivalent of:

hg pull -r branchhead1 -r branchhead2 -r branchhead3

We have a simple follow-up patch that can do this ready as well
(although not submitted yet as it is pending the acceptance of the
branch patch).


4. WRAP-UP

We generally find that the branchmap wire protocol extension can
provide better named branch support to Mercurial. Currently, some
things, like the initial push scenario in this mail, are fairly
counter-intuitive, and the more often you have to force push, the more
it is likely you will get a lot of spurious and unnecessary merge
nodes. Also, restricting incoming and pull to all changes on a branch
rather than changes on the tip-most head would be a sensible extension
to making named branches a first class citizen in Mercurial.
Currently, named branches sometimes feel like a late-coming unwanted
step-child.

We have run it in a production environment for a while, with fewer
multiple heads occurring in our repositories and fewer confused users
as a result.

Also, it fixes the long-standing issue 736.

Co-contributor: Sune Foldager <[e-mail]>

#!/bin/sh

"$TESTDIR/hghave" mtn || exit 80

# Monotone directory is called .monotone on *nix and monotone
# on Windows. Having a variable here ease test patching.
mtndir=.monotone
echo "[extensions]" >> $HGRCPATH
echo "convert=" >> $HGRCPATH
echo 'hgext.graphlog =' >> $HGRCPATH

HOME=`pwd`/do_not_use_HOME_mtn; export HOME
# Windows version of monotone home
APPDATA=$HOME; export APPDATA

echo % tedious monotone keys configuration
# The /dev/null redirection is necessary under Windows, or
# it complains about home directory permissions
mtn --quiet genkey [e-mail] 1>/dev/null 2>&1 <<EOF
passphrase
passphrase
EOF
cat >> $HOME/$mtndir/monotonerc <<EOF
function get_passphrase(keypair_id)
    return "passphrase"
end
EOF

echo % create monotone repository
mtn db init --db=repo.mtn
mtn --db=repo.mtn --branch=com.selenic.test setup workingdir
cd workingdir
echo a > a
mkdir dir
echo b > dir/b
echo d > dir/d
python -c 'file("bin", "wb").write("a\\x00b")'
echo c > c
mtn add a dir/b dir/d c bin
mtn ci -m initialize
echo % update monotone working directory
mtn mv a dir/a
echo a >> dir/a
echo b >> dir/b
mtn drop c
python -c 'file("bin", "wb").write("b\\x00c")'
mtn ci -m update1
cd ..

echo % convert once
hg convert -s mtn repo.mtn

cd workingdir
echo e > e
mtn add e
mtn drop dir/b
mtn mv bin bin2
mtn ci -m 'update2 "with" quotes'
echo '% test directory move'
mkdir -p dir1/subdir1
mkdir -p dir1/subdir2_other
echo file1 > dir1/subdir1/file1
echo file2 > dir1/subdir2_other/file1
mtn add dir1/subdir1/file1 dir1/subdir2_other/file1
mtn ci -m createdir1
mtn rename dir1/subdir1 dir1/subdir2
mtn ci -m movedir1
echo '% test subdirectory move'
mtn mv dir dir2
echo newfile > dir2/newfile
mtn drop dir2/d
mtn add dir2/newfile
mtn ci -m movedir
# Test directory removal with empty directory
mkdir dir2/dir
mkdir dir2/dir/subdir
echo f > dir2/dir/subdir/f
mkdir dir2/dir/emptydir
mtn add --quiet -R dir2/dir
mtn ci -m emptydir
mtn drop -R dir2/dir
mtn ci -m dropdirectory
echo '% test directory and file move'
mkdir -p dir3/d1
echo a > dir3/a
mtn add dir3/a dir3/d1
mtn ci -m dirfilemove
mtn mv dir3/a dir3/d1/a
mtn mv dir3/d1 dir3/d2
mtn ci -m dirfilemove2
echo '% test directory move into another directory move'
mkdir dir4
mkdir dir5
echo a > dir4/a
mtn add dir4/a dir5
mtn ci -m dirdirmove
mtn mv dir5 dir6
mtn mv dir4 dir6/dir4
mtn ci -m dirdirmove2
echo '% test diverging directory moves'
mkdir -p dir7/dir9/dir8
echo a > dir7/dir9/dir8/a
echo b > dir7/dir9/b
echo c > dir7/c
mtn add -R dir7
mtn ci -m divergentdirmove
mtn mv dir7 dir7-2
mtn mv dir7-2/dir9 dir9-2
mtn mv dir9-2/dir8 dir8-2
mtn ci -m divergentdirmove2
cd ..

echo % convert incrementally
hg convert -s mtn repo.mtn

glog()
{
    hg glog --template '{rev} "{desc|firstline}" files: {files}\n' "$@"
}

cd repo.mtn-hg
hg up -C
glog
echo % manifest
hg manifest
echo % contents
cat dir2/a
test -d dir2/dir && echo 'removed dir2/dir is still there!'

echo % file move
hg log -v -C -r 1 | grep copies
echo % check directory move
hg manifest -r 4
test -d dir1/subdir2 || echo 'new dir1/subdir2 does not exist!'
test -d dir1/subdir1 && echo 'renamed dir1/subdir1 is still there!'
hg log -v -C -r 4 | grep copies
echo % check file remove with directory move
hg manifest -r 5
echo % check file move with directory move
hg manifest -r 9
echo % check file directory directory move
hg manifest -r 11
echo % check divergent directory moves
hg manifest -r 13
exit 0