tests: add tests for poorly behaving HTTP server I've spent several hours over the past few weeks investigating networking failures involving hg.mozilla.org. As part of this, it has become clear that the Mercurial client's error handling when it encounters network failures is far from robust. To prove this is true, I've devised a battery of tests simulating various network failures, notably premature connection closes. To achieve this, I've implemented an extension that monkeypatches the built-in HTTP server and hooks in at the socket level and allows various events to occur based on config options. For example, you can refuse to accept() a client socket or you can close() the socket after N bytes have been sent or received. The latter effectively simulates an unexpected connection drop (and these occur all the time in the real world). The new test file launches servers exhibiting various "bad" behaviors and points a client at them. As the many TODO comments in the test call attention to, Mercurial often displays unhelpful errors when network-related failures occur. This makes it difficult for users to understand what's going on and difficult for server administrators to pinpoint root causes without packet tracing. Upcoming patches will attempt to fix these error handling deficiencies.

phases: emit phases to pushkey protocol in deterministic order An upcoming test will report exact bytes sent over the wire protocol. Without this change, the ordering of phases listkey data is non-deterministic.

keepalive: send HTTP request headers in a deterministic order An upcoming patch will add low-level testing of the bytes being sent over the wire. As part of developing that test, I discovered that the order of headers in HTTP requests wasn't deterministic. This patch makes the order deterministic to make things easier to test.

revset: properly parse "descend" argument of followlines() We parse "descend" symbol as a Boolean using getboolean (prior extraction by getargsdict already checked that it is a symbol). In tests, check for error cases and vary Boolean values here and there.

revsetlang: add a getboolean helper function This will be used to parse followlines's "descend" argument.

track-tags: write all tag changes to a file The tag changes information we compute is now written to disk. This gives hooks full access to that data. The format picked for that file uses a 2 characters prefix for the action: -R: tag removed +A: tag added -M: tag moved (old value) +M: tag moved (new value) This format allows hooks to easily select the line that matters to them without having to post process the file too much. Here is a couple of examples: * to select all newly tagged changeset, match "^+", * to detect tag move, match "^.M", * to detect tag deletion, match "-R". Once again we rely on the fact the tag tests run through all possible situations to test this change.

track-tags: compute the actual differences between tags pre/post transaction We now compute the proper actuall differences between tags before and after the transaction. This catch a couple of false positives in the tests. The compute the full difference since we are about to make this data available to hooks in the next changeset.