tests/test-convert-darcs.t

hgwebdir: avoid systematic full garbage collection

Forcing a systematic full garbage collection upon each request
can serioulsy harm performance. This is reported as
https://bz.mercurial-scm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6075

With this change we're performing the full collection according
to a new setting, `experimental.web.full-garbage-collection-rate`.
The default value is 1, which doesn't change the behavior and will
allow us to test on real use cases. If the value is 0, no full garbage
collection occurs.

Regardless of the value of the setting, a partial garbage collection
still occurs upon each request (not attempting to collect objects from
the oldest generation). This should be enough to take care of
reference cycles that have been created by the last request
(assessment of this requires changing the setting, not to be 1).

In my experience chasing memory leaks in Mercurial servers,
the full collection never reclaimed any memory, but this is with
Python 3 and biased towards small repositories.

On the other hand, as explained in the Python developer docs [1],
frequent full collections are very harmful in terms of performance if
lots of objects survive the collection, and hence stay in the
oldest generation. Note that `gc.collect()` is indeed trying to
collect the oldest generation [2]. This happens usually in two cases:

- unwanted lingering objects (i.e., an actual memory leak that
  the GC cannot do anything about). Sadly, we have lots of those
  these days.
- desireable long-term objects, typically in caches (not inner caches
  carried by repositories, which should be collected with them). This
  is a subject of interest for the Heptapod project.

In short, the flat rate that this change still permits is
probably a bad idea in most cases, and the default value can
be tweaked later on (or even be set to 0) according to experiments
in the wild.

The test is inspired from test-hgwebdir-paths.py

[1] https://devguide.python.org/garbage_collector/#collecting-the-oldest-generation
[2] https://docs.python.org/3/library/gc.html#gc.collect

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D11204

#require darcs

  $ echo "[extensions]" >> $HGRCPATH
  $ echo "convert=" >> $HGRCPATH
  $ DARCS_EMAIL='[e-mail]'; export DARCS_EMAIL

initialize darcs repo

  $ mkdir darcs-repo
  $ cd darcs-repo
  $ darcs init -q
  $ echo a > a
  $ darcs record -a -l -m p0
  Finished recording patch 'p0'
  $ cd ..

branch and update

  $ darcs get -q darcs-repo darcs-clone >/dev/null
  $ cd darcs-clone
  $ echo c >> a
  $ echo c > c
  $ darcs record -a -l -m p1.1
  Finished recording patch 'p1.1'
  $ cd ..

skip if we can't import elementtree

  $ if hg convert darcs-repo darcs-dummy 2>&1 | grep ElementTree > /dev/null; then
  >     echo 'skipped: missing feature: elementtree module'
  >     exit 80
  > fi

update source

  $ cd darcs-repo
  $ echo b >> a
  $ echo b > b
  $ darcs record -a -l -m p1.2
  Finished recording patch 'p1.2'

  $ darcs pull -q -a --no-set-default ../darcs-clone
  Backing up ./a(*) (glob)
  We have conflicts in the following files:
  ./a
   (?)
  $ sleep 1
  $ echo e > a
  $ echo f > f
  $ mkdir dir
  $ echo d > dir/d
  $ echo d > dir/d2
  $ darcs record -a -l -m p2
  Finished recording patch 'p2'

test file and directory move

  $ darcs mv -q f ff

Test remove + move

  $ darcs remove -q dir/d2
  $ rm dir/d2
  $ darcs mv -q dir dir2
  $ darcs record -a -l -m p3
  Finished recording patch 'p3'

The converter does not currently handle patch conflicts very well.
When they occur, it reverts *all* changes and moves forward,
letting the conflict resolving patch fix collisions.
Unfortunately, non-conflicting changes, like the addition of the
"c" file in p1.1 patch are reverted too.
Just to say that manifest not listing "c" here is a bug.

  $ cd ..
  $ hg convert darcs-repo darcs-repo-hg
  initializing destination darcs-repo-hg repository
  scanning source...
  sorting...
  converting...
  4 p0
  3 p1.2
  2 p1.1
  1 p2
  0 p3
  $ hg log -R darcs-repo-hg -g --template '{rev} "{desc|firstline}" ({author}) files: {files}\n' "$@"
  4 "p3" ([e-mail]) files: dir/d dir/d2 dir2/d f ff
  3 "p2" ([e-mail]) files: a dir/d dir/d2 f
  2 "p1.1" ([e-mail]) files: 
  1 "p1.2" ([e-mail]) files: a b
  0 "p0" ([e-mail]) files: a

  $ hg up -q -R darcs-repo-hg
  $ hg -R darcs-repo-hg manifest --debug
  7225b30cdf38257d5cc7780772c051b6f33e6d6b 644   a
  1e88685f5ddec574a34c70af492f95b6debc8741 644   b
  37406831adc447ec2385014019599dfec953c806 644   dir2/d
  b783a337463792a5c7d548ad85a7d3253c16ba8c 644   ff

#if no-outer-repo

try converting darcs1 repository

  $ hg clone -q "$TESTDIR/bundles/darcs1.hg" darcs
  $ hg convert -s darcs darcs/darcs1 2>&1 | grep darcs-1.0
  darcs-1.0 repository format is unsupported, please upgrade

#endif