mercurial/sshserver.py

revlog: change generaldelta delta parent heuristic

The old generaldelta heuristic was "if p1 (or p2) was closer than the last full text,
use it, otherwise use prev". This was problematic when a repo contained multiple
branches that were very different. If commits to branch A were pushed, and the
last full text was branch B, it would generate a fulltext. Then if branch B was
pushed, it would generate another fulltext. The problem is that the last
fulltext (and delta'ing against `prev` in general) has no correlation with the
contents of the incoming revision, and therefore will always have degenerate
cases.

According to the blame, that algorithm was chosen to minimize the chain length.
Since there is already code that protects against that (the delta-vs-fulltext
code), and since it has been improved since the original generaldelta algorithm
went in (2011), I believe the chain length criteria will still be preserved.

The new algorithm always diffs against p1 (or p2 if it's closer), unless the
resulting delta will fail the delta-vs-fulltext check, in which case we delta
against prev.

Some before and after stats on manifest.d size.

internal large repo
old heuristic - 2.0 GB
new heuristic - 1.2 GB

mozilla-central
old heuristic - 242 MB
new heuristic - 261 MB

The regression in mozilla central is due to the new heuristic choosing p2r as
the delta when it's closer to the tip. Switching the algorithm to always prefer
p1r brings the size back down (242 MB). This is result of the way in which
mozilla does merges and pushes, and the result could easily swing the other
direction in other repos (depending on if they merge X into Y or Y into X), but
will never be as degenerate as before.

I future patch will address the regression by introducing an optional, even more
aggressive delta heuristic which will knock the mozilla manifest size down
dramatically.

# sshserver.py - ssh protocol server support for mercurial
#
# Copyright 2005-2007 Matt Mackall <[e-mail]>
# Copyright 2006 Vadim Gelfer <[e-mail]>
#
# This software may be used and distributed according to the terms of the
# GNU General Public License version 2 or any later version.

from __future__ import absolute_import

import os
import sys

from . import (
    hook,
    util,
    wireproto,
)

class sshserver(wireproto.abstractserverproto):
    def __init__(self, ui, repo):
        self.ui = ui
        self.repo = repo
        self.lock = None
        self.fin = ui.fin
        self.fout = ui.fout

        hook.redirect(True)
        ui.fout = repo.ui.fout = ui.ferr

        # Prevent insertion/deletion of CRs
        util.setbinary(self.fin)
        util.setbinary(self.fout)

    def getargs(self, args):
        data = {}
        keys = args.split()
        for n in xrange(len(keys)):
            argline = self.fin.readline()[:-1]
            arg, l = argline.split()
            if arg not in keys:
                raise util.Abort("unexpected parameter %r" % arg)
            if arg == '*':
                star = {}
                for k in xrange(int(l)):
                    argline = self.fin.readline()[:-1]
                    arg, l = argline.split()
                    val = self.fin.read(int(l))
                    star[arg] = val
                data['*'] = star
            else:
                val = self.fin.read(int(l))
                data[arg] = val
        return [data[k] for k in keys]

    def getarg(self, name):
        return self.getargs(name)[0]

    def getfile(self, fpout):
        self.sendresponse('')
        count = int(self.fin.readline())
        while count:
            fpout.write(self.fin.read(count))
            count = int(self.fin.readline())

    def redirect(self):
        pass

    def groupchunks(self, changegroup):
        while True:
            d = changegroup.read(4096)
            if not d:
                break
            yield d

    def sendresponse(self, v):
        self.fout.write("%d\n" % len(v))
        self.fout.write(v)
        self.fout.flush()

    def sendstream(self, source):
        write = self.fout.write
        for chunk in source.gen:
            write(chunk)
        self.fout.flush()

    def sendpushresponse(self, rsp):
        self.sendresponse('')
        self.sendresponse(str(rsp.res))

    def sendpusherror(self, rsp):
        self.sendresponse(rsp.res)

    def sendooberror(self, rsp):
        self.ui.ferr.write('%s\n-\n' % rsp.message)
        self.ui.ferr.flush()
        self.fout.write('\n')
        self.fout.flush()

    def serve_forever(self):
        try:
            while self.serve_one():
                pass
        finally:
            if self.lock is not None:
                self.lock.release()
        sys.exit(0)

    handlers = {
        str: sendresponse,
        wireproto.streamres: sendstream,
        wireproto.pushres: sendpushresponse,
        wireproto.pusherr: sendpusherror,
        wireproto.ooberror: sendooberror,
    }

    def serve_one(self):
        cmd = self.fin.readline()[:-1]
        if cmd and cmd in wireproto.commands:
            rsp = wireproto.dispatch(self.repo, self, cmd)
            self.handlers[rsp.__class__](self, rsp)
        elif cmd:
            impl = getattr(self, 'do_' + cmd, None)
            if impl:
                r = impl()
                if r is not None:
                    self.sendresponse(r)
            else: self.sendresponse("")
        return cmd != ''

    def _client(self):
        client = os.environ.get('SSH_CLIENT', '').split(' ', 1)[0]
        return 'remote:ssh:' + client