tests/test-excessive-merge.t

obsolete: explicitly track folds inside the markers

We now record information to be able to recognize "fold" event from
obsolescence markers. To do so, we track the following pieces of information:

a) a fold ID. Unique to that fold (per successor),
b) the number of predecessors,
c) the index of the predecessor in that fold.

We will now be able to create an algorithm able to find "predecessorssets".

We now store this data in the generic "metadata" field of the markers.
Updating the format to have a more compact storage for this would be useful.

This way of tracking a fold through multiple markers could be applied to split
too. This would have two advantages:

1) We get a simpler format, since number of successors is limited to [0-1].
2) We can better deal with situations where only some of the split successors
   are pushed to a remote repository.

We should look into the relevance of such a change before updating the on-disk
format.

note: unlike splits, folds do not have to deal with cases where only some of
the markers have been synchronized. As they all share the same successor
changesets, they are all relevant to the same nodes.

  $ hg init

  $ echo foo > a
  $ echo foo > b
  $ hg add a b

  $ hg ci -m "test"

  $ echo blah > a

  $ hg ci -m "branch a"

  $ hg co 0
  1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved

  $ echo blah > b

  $ hg ci -m "branch b"
  created new head
  $ HGMERGE=true hg merge 1
  1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
  (branch merge, don't forget to commit)

  $ hg ci -m "merge b/a -> blah"

  $ hg co 1
  1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
  $ HGMERGE=true hg merge 2
  1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
  (branch merge, don't forget to commit)
  $ hg ci -m "merge a/b -> blah"
  created new head

  $ hg log
  changeset:   4:2ee31f665a86
  tag:         tip
  parent:      1:96155394af80
  parent:      2:92cc4c306b19
  user:        test
  date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
  summary:     merge a/b -> blah
  
  changeset:   3:e16a66a37edd
  parent:      2:92cc4c306b19
  parent:      1:96155394af80
  user:        test
  date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
  summary:     merge b/a -> blah
  
  changeset:   2:92cc4c306b19
  parent:      0:5e0375449e74
  user:        test
  date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
  summary:     branch b
  
  changeset:   1:96155394af80
  user:        test
  date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
  summary:     branch a
  
  changeset:   0:5e0375449e74
  user:        test
  date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
  summary:     test
  
  $ hg debugindex --changelog
     rev linkrev nodeid       p1           p2
       0       0 5e0375449e74 000000000000 000000000000
       1       1 96155394af80 5e0375449e74 000000000000
       2       2 92cc4c306b19 5e0375449e74 000000000000
       3       3 e16a66a37edd 92cc4c306b19 96155394af80
       4       4 2ee31f665a86 96155394af80 92cc4c306b19

revision 1
  $ hg manifest --debug 1
  79d7492df40aa0fa093ec4209be78043c181f094 644   a
  2ed2a3912a0b24502043eae84ee4b279c18b90dd 644   b
revision 2
  $ hg manifest --debug 2
  2ed2a3912a0b24502043eae84ee4b279c18b90dd 644   a
  79d7492df40aa0fa093ec4209be78043c181f094 644   b
revision 3
  $ hg manifest --debug 3
  79d7492df40aa0fa093ec4209be78043c181f094 644   a
  79d7492df40aa0fa093ec4209be78043c181f094 644   b
revision 4
  $ hg manifest --debug 4
  79d7492df40aa0fa093ec4209be78043c181f094 644   a
  79d7492df40aa0fa093ec4209be78043c181f094 644   b

  $ hg debugindex a
     rev linkrev nodeid       p1           p2
       0       0 2ed2a3912a0b 000000000000 000000000000
       1       1 79d7492df40a 2ed2a3912a0b 000000000000

  $ hg verify
  checking changesets
  checking manifests
  crosschecking files in changesets and manifests
  checking files
  checked 5 changesets with 4 changes to 2 files