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revlog: add an experimental option to mitigated delta issues (issue5480)

The general delta heuristic to select a delta do not scale with the number of
branch. The delta base is frequently too far away to be able to reuse a chain
according to the "distance" criteria. This leads to insertion of larger delta (or
even full text) that themselves push the bases for the next delta further away
leading to more large deltas and full texts. This full text and frequent
recomputation throw Mercurial performance in disarray.

For example of a slightly large repository

  280 000 files (2 150 000 versions)
  430 000 changesets (10 000 topological heads)

Number below compares repository with and without the distance criteria:

manifest size:
    with:    21.4 GB
    without:  0.3 GB

store size:
    with:    28.7 GB
    without   7.4 GB

bundle last 15 00 revisions:
    with:    800 seconds
             971 MB
    without:  50 seconds
              73 MB

unbundle time (of the last 15K revisions):
    with:    1150 seconds (~19 minutes)
    without:   35 seconds

Similar issues has been observed in other repositories.


Adding a new option or "feature" on stable is uncommon. However, given that this
issues is making Mercurial practically unusable, I'm exceptionally targeting
this patch for stable.

What is actually needed is a full rework of the delta building and reading
logic. However, that will be a longer process and churn not suitable for stable.

In the meantime, we introduces a quick and dirty mitigation of this in the
'experimental' config space. The new option introduces a way to set the maximum
amount of memory usable to store a diff in memory. This extend the ability for
Mercurial to create chains without removing all safe guard regarding memory
access. The option should be phased out when core has a more proper solution
available.

Setting the limit to '0' remove all limits, setting it to '-1' use the default
limit (textsize x 4).

  $ echo "[extensions]" >> $HGRCPATH
  $ echo "churn=" >> $HGRCPATH

create test repository

  $ hg init repo
  $ cd repo
  $ echo a > a
  $ hg ci -Am adda -u user1 -d 6:00
  adding a
  $ echo b >> a
  $ echo b > b
  $ hg ci -m changeba -u user2 -d 9:00 a
  $ hg ci -Am addb -u user2 -d 9:30
  adding b
  $ echo c >> a
  $ echo c >> b
  $ echo c > c
  $ hg ci -m changeca -u user3 -d 12:00 a
  $ hg ci -m changecb -u user3 -d 12:15 b
  $ hg ci -Am addc -u user3 -d 12:30
  adding c
  $ mkdir -p d/e
  $ echo abc > d/e/f1.txt
  $ hg ci -Am "add d/e/f1.txt" -u user1 -d 12:45 d/e/f1.txt
  $ mkdir -p d/g
  $ echo def > d/g/f2.txt
  $ hg ci -Am "add d/g/f2.txt" -u user1 -d 13:00 d/g/f2.txt


churn separate directories

  $ cd d
  $ hg churn e
  user1      1 ***************************************************************

churn all

  $ hg churn
  user1      3 ***************************************************************
  user3      3 ***************************************************************
  user2      2 ******************************************

churn excluding one dir

  $ hg churn -X e
  user3      3 ***************************************************************
  user1      2 ******************************************
  user2      2 ******************************************

churn up to rev 2

  $ hg churn -r :2
  user2      2 ***************************************************************
  user1      1 ********************************
  $ cd ..

churn with aliases

  $ cat > ../aliases <<EOF
  > user1 alias1
  > user3 alias3
  > not-an-alias
  > EOF

churn with .hgchurn

  $ mv ../aliases .hgchurn
  $ hg churn
  skipping malformed alias: not-an-alias
  alias1      3 **************************************************************
  alias3      3 **************************************************************
  user2       2 *****************************************
  $ rm .hgchurn

churn with column specifier

  $ COLUMNS=40 hg churn
  user1      3 ***********************
  user3      3 ***********************
  user2      2 ***************

churn by hour

  $ hg churn -f '%H' -s
  06      1 *****************
  09      2 *********************************
  12      4 ******************************************************************
  13      1 *****************


churn with separated added/removed lines

  $ hg rm d/g/f2.txt
  $ hg ci -Am "removed d/g/f2.txt" -u user1 -d 14:00 d/g/f2.txt
  $ hg churn --diffstat
  user1           +3/-1 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
  user3           +3/-0 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
  user2           +2/-0 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++

churn --diffstat with color

  $ hg --config extensions.color= churn --config color.mode=ansi \
  >     --diffstat --color=always
  user1           +3/-1 \x1b[0;32m+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++\x1b[0m\x1b[0;31m--------------\x1b[0m (esc)
  user3           +3/-0 \x1b[0;32m+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++\x1b[0m (esc)
  user2           +2/-0 \x1b[0;32m+++++++++++++++++++++++++++\x1b[0m (esc)


changeset number churn

  $ hg churn -c
  user1      4 ***************************************************************
  user3      3 ***********************************************
  user2      2 ********************************

  $ echo 'with space = no-space' >> ../aliases
  $ echo a >> a
  $ hg commit -m a -u 'with space' -d 15:00

churn with space in alias

  $ hg churn --aliases ../aliases -r tip
  no-space      1 ************************************************************

  $ cd ..


Issue833: ZeroDivisionError

  $ hg init issue-833
  $ cd issue-833
  $ touch foo
  $ hg ci -Am foo
  adding foo

this was failing with a ZeroDivisionError

  $ hg churn
  test      0 
  $ cd ..

Ignore trailing or leading spaces in emails

  $ cd repo
  $ touch bar
  $ hg ci -Am'bar' -u 'user4 <[e-mail]>'
  adding bar
  $ touch foo
  $ hg ci -Am'foo' -u 'user4 < [e-mail] >'
  adding foo
  $ hg log -l2 --template '[{author|email}]\n'
  [ [e-mail] ]
  [[e-mail]]
  $ hg churn -c
  user1            4 *********************************************************
  user3            3 *******************************************
  user2            2 *****************************
  [e-mail]      2 *****************************
  with space       1 **************

Test multibyte sequences in names

  $ echo bar >> bar
  $ hg --encoding utf-8 ci -m'changed bar' -u 'El Niño <[e-mail]>'
  $ hg --encoding utf-8 churn -ct '{author|person}'
  user1           4 **********************************************************
  user3           3 ********************************************
  user2           2 *****************************
  user4           2 *****************************
  El Ni\xc3\xb1o         1 *************** (esc)
  with space      1 ***************

Test --template argument, with backwards compatibility

  $ hg churn -t '{author|user}'
  user1      4 ***************************************************************
  user3      3 ***********************************************
  user2      2 ********************************
  nino       1 ****************
  with       1 ****************
             0 
  user4      0 
  $ hg churn -T '{author|user}'
  user1      4 ***************************************************************
  user3      3 ***********************************************
  user2      2 ********************************
  nino       1 ****************
  with       1 ****************
             0 
  user4      0 
  $ hg churn -t 'alltogether'
  alltogether     11 *********************************************************
  $ hg churn -T 'alltogether'
  alltogether     11 *********************************************************

  $ cd ..