annotate tests/test-diff-reverse.t @ 17970:0b03454abae7

ancestor: faster algorithm for difference of ancestor sets

One of the major reasons rebase is slow in large repositories is
the computation of the detach set: the set of ancestors of the
changesets to rebase not in the destination parent. This is currently
done via a revset that does two walks all the way to the root of
the DAG. Instead of doing that, to find ancestors of a set <revs>
not in another set <common> we walk up the tree in reverse revision
number order, maintaining sets of nodes visited from <revs>, <common>
or both.

For the common case where the sets are close both topologically and
in revision number (relative to repository size), this has been
found to speed up rebase by around 15-20%. When the nodes are farther
apart and the DAG is highly branching, it is harder to say which
would win.

Here's how long computing the detach set takes in a linear repository
with over 400000 changesets, rebasing near tip:

Rebasing across 4 changesets
Revset method: 2.2s
New algorithm: 0.00015s

Rebasing across 250 changesets
Revset method: 2.2s
New algorithm: 0.00069s

Rebasing across 10000 changesets
Revset method: 2.4s
New algorithm: 0.019s

  $ hg init

  $ cat > a <<EOF
  > a
  > b
  > c
  > EOF
  $ hg ci -Am adda
  adding a

  $ cat > a <<EOF
  > d
  > e
  > f
  > EOF
  $ hg ci -m moda

  $ hg diff --reverse -r0 -r1
  diff -r 2855cdcfcbb7 -r 8e1805a3cf6e a
  --- a/a	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
  +++ b/a	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
  @@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
  -d
  -e
  -f
  +a
  +b
  +c

  $ cat >> a <<EOF
  > g
  > h
  > EOF
  $ hg diff --reverse --nodates
  diff -r 2855cdcfcbb7 a
  --- a/a
  +++ b/a
  @@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
   d
   e
   f
  -g
  -h