obsutil: sort metadata before comparing in geteffectflag() This is probably less important now that we dropped Python 2. We do still support Python 3.6 though, and the dictionaries aren't ordered there either (that was a big change that came with 3.7). Still, maybe it's a good idea to sort metadata explicitly.

tests: disable revlog compression in test-generaldelta.t (issue6867) The revlog compression makes a lot of numbers unstable. Since checking revlog compression is not the goal of this test, we disable the compression to get stable numbers. This should avoid wasting more time on this kind of changes in the future.

test-general-delta: actually test optimize-delta-parent-choice=no Since the configuration was not explicit, the case stopped testing what it intended to test when the default value changed.

test-chg: stabilize the log checking The "worker process exited" line have been making the CI flaky for a long time. Lets sort this out.

tests: fix test-patchbomb-tls.t instability The flakiness on chg is caused by a client that exit faster than the server output log. So actively wait for the server to issue the expected output (with a small timeout)

test-lock: use synchronisation file instead of sleep This will prevent the test to be flaky on load.

rust-matchers: raw regular expression builder Extracting this `re_builder()` from `re_matcher()` makes it reusable in more general cases than matching `HgPath` instances and would help reducing code duplication in RHGitaly.

rust-filepatterns: export glob_to_re function Making this function public should not risk freezing the internal API, and it can be useful for all downstream code that needs to perform glob matching against byte strings, such as RHGitaly where it will be useful to match on branches and tags.

rust-index: don't use mutable borrow to computed filtered heads This does not need to mutate the index. This is the prime suspect for some RuntimeError raised during some pushes.

rust-index: don't use mutable borrow for head-diff computation It does not needs to mutate the index. This is one of the two suspects of RuntimeError being thrown during push.