contrib: add a commit synthesizer for reproducing scaling problems
This adds two new commands:
- analyze examines an existing repo and writes out a statistical
description of its properties that contains no identifying
information.
- synthesize creates new commits based on the description generated
by analyze.
The intention is that a repo constructed using synthesize will have
properties that are vaguely statistically similar to the originating
repo, but entirely random content.
This can be useful for forecasting performance as a repo grows, and
for developers who want to find bottlenecks in proprietary repos
to which they do not have access.
Mercurial
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Mercurial is a fast, easy to use, distributed revision control tool
for software developers.
Basic install:
$ make # see install targets
$ make install # do a system-wide install
$ hg debuginstall # sanity-check setup
$ hg # see help
Running without installing:
$ make local # build for inplace usage
$ ./hg --version # should show the latest version
See http://mercurial.selenic.com/ for detailed installation
instructions, platform-specific notes, and Mercurial user information.