merge: apply non-interactive working dir updates in parallel
This has a big effect on the performance of working dir updates.
Here are the results of update from null to the given rev in several
repos, on a Linux 3.2 system with 32 cores running ext4, with the progress
extension enabled.
repo rev plain parallel speedup
hg 7068089c95a2 0.9 0.3 3
mozilla-central fe1600b22c77 42.8 7.7 5.5
linux-2.6 9ef4b770e069 31.4 4.9 6.4
$ hg init t
$ cd t
$ echo This is file a1 > a
$ hg add a
$ hg commit -m "commit #0"
$ echo This is file b1 > b
$ hg add b
$ hg commit -m "commit #1"
$ rm b
$ hg update 0
0 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ echo This is file b2 > b
$ hg add b
$ hg commit -m "commit #2"
created new head
$ cd ..; rm -r t
$ mkdir t
$ cd t
$ hg init
$ echo This is file a1 > a
$ hg add a
$ hg commit -m "commit #0"
$ echo This is file b1 > b
$ hg add b
$ hg commit -m "commit #1"
$ rm b
$ hg update 0
0 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ echo This is file b2 > b
$ hg commit -A -m "commit #2"
adding b
created new head
$ cd ..; rm -r t
$ hg init t
$ cd t
$ echo This is file a1 > a
$ hg add a
$ hg commit -m "commit #0"
$ echo This is file b1 > b
$ hg add b
$ hg commit -m "commit #1"
$ rm b
$ hg remove b
$ hg update 0
0 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ echo This is file b2 > b
$ hg commit -A -m "commit #2"
adding b
created new head
$ cd ..