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.
Corrupt an hg repo with two pulls.
create one repo with a long history
$ hg init source1
$ cd source1
$ touch foo
$ hg add foo
$ for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10; do
> echo $i >> foo
> hg ci -m $i
> done
$ cd ..
create one repo with a shorter history
$ hg clone -r 0 source1 source2
adding changesets
adding manifests
adding file changes
added 1 changesets with 1 changes to 1 files
updating to branch default
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ cd source2
$ echo a >> foo
$ hg ci -m a
$ cd ..
create a third repo to pull both other repos into it
$ hg init corrupted
$ cd corrupted
use a hook to make the second pull start while the first one is still running
$ echo '[hooks]' >> .hg/hgrc
$ echo 'prechangegroup = sleep 5' >> .hg/hgrc
start a pull...
$ hg pull ../source1 > pull.out 2>&1 &
... and start another pull before the first one has finished
$ sleep 1
$ hg pull ../source2 2>/dev/null
pulling from ../source2
searching for changes
adding changesets
adding manifests
adding file changes
added 1 changesets with 1 changes to 1 files (+1 heads)
(run 'hg heads' to see heads, 'hg merge' to merge)
$ cat pull.out
pulling from ../source1
requesting all changes
adding changesets
adding manifests
adding file changes
added 10 changesets with 10 changes to 1 files
(run 'hg update' to get a working copy)
see the result
$ wait
$ hg verify
checking changesets
checking manifests
crosschecking files in changesets and manifests
checking files
1 files, 11 changesets, 11 total revisions
$ cd ..