similar: compare between actual file contents for exact identity
Before this patch, similarity detection logic (for addremove and
automv) depends entirely on SHA-1 digesting. But this causes incorrect
rename detection, if:
- removing file A and adding file B occur at same committing, and
- SHA-1 hash values of file A and B are same
This may prevent security experts from managing sample files for
SHAttered issue in Mercurial repository, for example.
https://security.googleblog.com/2017/02/announcing-first-sha1-collision.html
https://shattered.it/
Hash collision itself isn't so serious for core repository
functionality of Mercurial, described by mpm as below, though.
https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/mpm/SHA1
This patch compares between actual file contents after hash comparison
for exact identity.
Even after this patch, SHA-1 is still used, because it is reasonable
enough to quickly detect existence of "(almost) same" file.
- replacing SHA-1 causes decreasing performance, and
- replacement of it has ambiguity, yet
Getting content of removed file (= rfctx.data()) at each exact
comparison should be cheap enough, even though getting content of
added one costs much.
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file fctx data() reads from
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removed filectx in-memory revlog data
added workingfilectx storage
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$ hg init repo
$ cd repo
$ touch foo
$ hg ci -Am 'add foo'
adding foo
$ hg up -C null
0 files updated, 0 files merged, 1 files removed, 0 files unresolved
this should be stored as a delta against rev 0
$ echo foo bar baz > foo
$ hg ci -Am 'add foo again'
adding foo
created new head
$ hg debugindex foo
rev offset length ..... linkrev nodeid p1 p2 (re)
0 0 0 ..... 0 b80de5d13875 000000000000 000000000000 (re)
1 0 13 ..... 1 0376abec49b8 000000000000 000000000000 (re)
$ cd ..