view tests/test-diffdir.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
  $ touch a
  $ hg add a
  $ hg ci -m "a"

  $ echo 123 > b
  $ hg add b
  $ hg diff --nodates
  diff -r 3903775176ed b
  --- /dev/null
  +++ b/b
  @@ -0,0 +1,1 @@
  +123

  $ hg diff --nodates -r tip
  diff -r 3903775176ed b
  --- /dev/null
  +++ b/b
  @@ -0,0 +1,1 @@
  +123

  $ echo foo > a
  $ hg diff --nodates
  diff -r 3903775176ed a
  --- a/a
  +++ b/a
  @@ -0,0 +1,1 @@
  +foo
  diff -r 3903775176ed b
  --- /dev/null
  +++ b/b
  @@ -0,0 +1,1 @@
  +123

  $ hg diff -r ""
  hg: parse error: empty query
  [255]
  $ hg diff -r tip -r ""
  hg: parse error: empty query
  [255]