tests/test-symlink-os-yes-fs-no.py

exchange: support sorting URLs by client-side preferences

Not all bundles are appropriate for all clients. For example, someone
with a slow Internet connection may want to prefer bz2 bundles over gzip
bundles because they are smaller and don't take as long to transfer.
This is information that a server cannot know on its own. So, we invent
a mechanism for "preferring" server-advertised URLs based on their
attributes.

We could invent a negotiation between client and server where the client
sends its preferences and the sorting/filtering is done server-side.
However, this feels complex. We can avoid complicating the wire protocol
and exposing ourselves to backwards compatible concerns by performing
the sorting locally.

This patch defines a new config option for expressing preferred
attributes in server-advertised bundles.

At Mozilla, we leverage this feature so clients in fast data centers
prefer uncompressed bundles. (We advertise gzip bundles first because
that is a reasonable default.)

I consider this an advanced feature. I'm on the fence as to whether it
should be documented in `hg help config`.

import os, sys, time
from mercurial import hg, ui, commands, util

TESTDIR = os.environ["TESTDIR"]
BUNDLEPATH = os.path.join(TESTDIR, 'bundles', 'test-no-symlinks.hg')

# only makes sense to test on os which supports symlinks
if not getattr(os, "symlink", False):
    sys.exit(80) # SKIPPED_STATUS defined in run-tests.py

u = ui.ui()
# hide outer repo
hg.peer(u, {}, '.', create=True)

# clone with symlink support
hg.clone(u, {}, BUNDLEPATH, 'test0')

repo = hg.repository(u, 'test0')

# wait a bit, or the status call wont update the dirstate
time.sleep(1)
commands.status(u, repo)

# now disable symlink support -- this is what os.symlink would do on a
# non-symlink file system
def symlink_failure(src, dst):
    raise OSError(1, "Operation not permitted")
os.symlink = symlink_failure

# dereference links as if a Samba server has exported this to a
# Windows client
for f in 'test0/a.lnk', 'test0/d/b.lnk':
    os.unlink(f)
    fp = open(f, 'wb')
    fp.write(util.readfile(f[:-4]))
    fp.close()

# reload repository
u = ui.ui()
repo = hg.repository(u, 'test0')
commands.status(u, repo)

# try cloning a repo which contains symlinks
u = ui.ui()
hg.clone(u, {}, BUNDLEPATH, 'test1')