bdiff: balance recursion to avoid quadratic behavior (issue4704)
For highly structured files like JSON or XML dumps with large numbers
of duplicate lines (eg braces) and isolated matching lines, bdiff
could find large numbers of equally good spans. Because it prefers
earlier matches, this would result in pathologically unbalance
recursion that resulted in quadratic performance.
This patch makes it prefer matches closer to the middle that tend to
balance recursion. This change improves the speed of a pathological
test case from 1100s to 9s.
Included is a smaller test that has a roughly 50x safety margin on the
performance it accepts. It's likely to fail on pure builds because
difflib also has a recursion-balancing problem.
Test for changeset 9fe267f77f56ff127cf7e65dc15dd9de71ce8ceb
(merge correctly when all the files in a directory are moved
but then local changes are added in the same directory)
$ hg init a
$ cd a
$ mkdir -p testdir
$ echo a > testdir/a
$ hg add testdir/a
$ hg commit -m a
$ cd ..
$ hg clone a b
updating to branch default
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ cd a
$ echo alpha > testdir/a
$ hg commit -m remote-change
$ cd ..
$ cd b
$ mkdir testdir/subdir
$ hg mv testdir/a testdir/subdir/a
$ hg commit -m move
$ mkdir newdir
$ echo beta > newdir/beta
$ hg add newdir/beta
$ hg commit -m local-addition
$ hg pull ../a
pulling from ../a
searching for changes
adding changesets
adding manifests
adding file changes
added 1 changesets with 1 changes to 1 files (+1 heads)
(run 'hg heads' to see heads, 'hg merge' to merge)
$ hg up -C 2
0 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ hg merge
merging testdir/subdir/a and testdir/a to testdir/subdir/a
0 files updated, 1 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
(branch merge, don't forget to commit)
$ hg stat
M testdir/subdir/a
$ hg diff --nodates
diff -r bc21c9773bfa testdir/subdir/a
--- a/testdir/subdir/a
+++ b/testdir/subdir/a
@@ -1,1 +1,1 @@
-a
+alpha
$ cd ..