contrib/debugcmdserver.py

documentation: add some internals documentation about bid merge

This is an important algorithm that was only documented on the wiki so far.

Some update to the algorithm (and associated doc) is to expected in the future
since the bid merge algorithm is bug-ridden when it comes to file deletion comes
to play.

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D8711

#!/usr/bin/env python
#
# Dumps output generated by Mercurial's command server in a formatted style to a
# given file or stderr if '-' is specified. Output is also written in its raw
# format to stdout.
#
# $ ./hg serve --cmds pipe | ./contrib/debugcmdserver.py -
# o, 52   -> 'capabilities: getencoding runcommand\nencoding: UTF-8'

from __future__ import absolute_import, print_function
import struct
import sys

if len(sys.argv) != 2:
    print('usage: debugcmdserver.py FILE')
    sys.exit(1)

outputfmt = '>cI'
outputfmtsize = struct.calcsize(outputfmt)

if sys.argv[1] == '-':
    log = sys.stderr
else:
    log = open(sys.argv[1], 'a')


def read(size):
    data = sys.stdin.read(size)
    if not data:
        raise EOFError
    sys.stdout.write(data)
    sys.stdout.flush()
    return data


try:
    while True:
        header = read(outputfmtsize)
        channel, length = struct.unpack(outputfmt, header)
        log.write('%s, %-4d' % (channel, length))
        if channel in 'IL':
            log.write(' -> waiting for input\n')
        else:
            data = read(length)
            log.write(' -> %r\n' % data)
        log.flush()
except EOFError:
    pass
finally:
    if log != sys.stderr:
        log.close()