revlog: increase I/O bound to 4x the amount of data consumed
This doesn't affect normal clones since they'd be bound by the CPU bound below
anyway -- it does, however, improve generaldelta clones significantly.
This also results in better deltaing for generaldelta clones -- in generaldelta
clones, we calculate deltas with respect to the closest base if it has a higher
revision number than either parent. If the base is on a significantly different
branch, this can result in pointlessly massive deltas. This reduces the number
of bases and hence the number of bad deltas.
Empirically, for a highly branchy repository, this resulted in an improvement
of around 15% to manifest size.
$ hg init
$ echo "added file1" > file1
$ echo "another line of text" >> file1
$ echo "added file2" > file2
$ hg add file1 file2
$ hg commit -m "added file1 and file2"
$ echo "changed file1" >> file1
$ hg commit -m "changed file1"
$ hg -q log
1:dfab7f3c2efb
0:c3fa057dd86f
$ hg id
dfab7f3c2efb tip
$ hg update -C 0
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ hg id
c3fa057dd86f
$ echo "changed file1" >> file1
$ hg id
c3fa057dd86f+
$ hg revert --no-backup --all
reverting file1
$ hg diff
$ hg status
$ hg id
c3fa057dd86f
$ hg update
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ hg diff
$ hg status
$ hg id
dfab7f3c2efb tip
$ hg update -C 0
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ echo "changed file1 different" >> file1
$ hg update
merging file1
warning: conflicts during merge.
merging file1 incomplete! (edit conflicts, then use 'hg resolve --mark')
0 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 1 files unresolved
use 'hg resolve' to retry unresolved file merges
[1]
$ hg diff --nodates
diff -r dfab7f3c2efb file1
--- a/file1
+++ b/file1
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
added file1
another line of text
+<<<<<<< working copy: c3fa057dd86f - test: added file1 and file2
+changed file1 different
+=======
changed file1
+>>>>>>> destination: dfab7f3c2efb - test: changed file1
$ hg status
M file1
? file1.orig
$ hg id
dfab7f3c2efb+ tip
$ hg revert --no-backup --all
reverting file1
$ hg diff
$ hg status
? file1.orig
$ hg id
dfab7f3c2efb tip
$ hg revert -r tip --no-backup --all
$ hg diff
$ hg status
? file1.orig
$ hg id
dfab7f3c2efb tip
$ hg update -C
0 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ hg diff
$ hg status
? file1.orig
$ hg id
dfab7f3c2efb tip