tests/test-sparse-clone.t

perf: add threading capability to perfbdiff

Since we are releasing the GIL during diffing, it is interesting to see how a
thread pool would perform on diffing. We add a new `--threads` argument to
commands. Synchronizing the thread pool is a bit complex because we want to be
able to reuse it from one run to another.

On my computer (i7 with 4 cores + hyperthreading), I get the following data for
about 12000 revisions:
threads wall        comb    wall gain   comb overhead
none    31.596715   31.59    0.00%       0.00%
1       31.621228   31.62   -0.08%       0.09%
2       16.406202   32.8    48.08%       3.83%
3       11.598334   34.76   63.29%      10.03%
4        9.205421   36.77   70.87%      16.40%
5        8.517604   42.51   73.04%      34.57%
6        7.94645    47.58   74.85%      50.62%
7        7.434972   51.92   76.47%      64.36%
8        7.070638   55.34   77.62%      75.18%

Compared to the feature disabled (threads=0), the overhead is negligible with
the threading code (threads=1), and the gain is already 48% with two threads.

test sparse

  $ cat >> $HGRCPATH << EOF
  > [ui]
  > ssh = python "$RUNTESTDIR/dummyssh"
  > username = nobody <[e-mail]>
  > [extensions]
  > sparse=
  > purge=
  > strip=
  > rebase=
  > EOF

  $ hg init myrepo
  $ cd myrepo
  $ echo a > index.html
  $ echo x > data.py
  $ echo z > readme.txt
  $ cat > webpage.sparse <<EOF
  > [include]
  > *.html
  > EOF
  $ cat > backend.sparse <<EOF
  > [include]
  > *.py
  > EOF
  $ hg ci -Aqm 'initial'
  $ cd ..

Verify local clone with a sparse profile works

  $ hg clone --enable-profile webpage.sparse myrepo clone1
  updating to branch default
  warning: sparse profile 'webpage.sparse' not found in rev 000000000000 - ignoring it
  1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
  $ cd clone1
  $ ls
  index.html
  $ cd ..

Verify local clone with include works

  $ hg clone --include *.sparse myrepo clone2
  updating to branch default
  2 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
  $ cd clone2
  $ ls
  backend.sparse
  webpage.sparse
  $ cd ..

Verify local clone with exclude works

  $ hg clone --exclude data.py myrepo clone3
  updating to branch default
  4 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
  $ cd clone3
  $ ls
  backend.sparse
  index.html
  readme.txt
  webpage.sparse
  $ cd ..

Verify sparse clone profile over ssh works

  $ hg clone -q --enable-profile webpage.sparse ssh://user@dummy/myrepo clone4
  warning: sparse profile 'webpage.sparse' not found in rev 000000000000 - ignoring it
  $ cd clone4
  $ ls
  index.html
  $ cd ..