hg: support for auto sharing stores when cloning
Many 3rd party consumers of Mercurial have created wrappers to
essentially perform clone+share as a single operation. This is
especially popular in automated processes like continuous integration
systems. The Jenkins CI software and Mozilla's Firefox release
automation infrastructure have both implemented custom code that
effectively perform clone+share. The common use case here is that
clients want to obtain N>1 checkouts while minimizing disk space and
network requirements. Furthermore, they often don't care that a clone
is an exact mirror of a remote: they are simply looking to obtain
checkouts of specific revisions.
When multiple third parties implement a similar feature, it's a good
sign that the feature is worth adding to the core product. This patch
adds support for an easy-to-use clone+share feature.
The internal "clone" function now accepts options to control auto
sharing during clone. When the auto share mode is active, a store will
be created/updated under the base directory specified and a new
repository pointing to the shared store will be created at the path
specified by the user.
The share extension has grown the ability to pass these options into
the clone command/function.
No command line options for this feature are added because we don't
feel the feature will be popular enough to warrant their existence.
There are two modes for auto share mode. In the default mode, the shared
repo is derived from the first changeset (rev 0) in the remote
repository. This enables related repositories existing at different URLs
to automatically use the same storage. In environments that operate
several repositories (separate repo for branch/head/bookmark or separate
repo per user), this has the potential to drastically reduce storage
and network requirements. In the other mode, the name is derived from the
remote's path/URL.
$ hg init t
$ cd t
$ echo 1 > foo
$ hg ci -Am1 # 0
adding foo
$ hg branch branchA
marked working directory as branch branchA
(branches are permanent and global, did you want a bookmark?)
$ echo a1 > foo
$ hg ci -ma1 # 1
$ cd ..
$ hg init tt
$ cd tt
$ hg pull ../t
pulling from ../t
requesting all changes
adding changesets
adding manifests
adding file changes
added 2 changesets with 2 changes to 1 files
(run 'hg update' to get a working copy)
$ hg up branchA
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ cd ../t
$ echo a2 > foo
$ hg ci -ma2 # 2
Create branch B:
$ hg up 0
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ hg branch branchB
marked working directory as branch branchB
$ echo b1 > foo
$ hg ci -mb1 # 3
$ cd ../tt
A new branch is there
$ hg pull -u ../t
pulling from ../t
searching for changes
adding changesets
adding manifests
adding file changes
added 2 changesets with 2 changes to 1 files (+1 heads)
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
Develop both branches:
$ cd ../t
$ hg up branchA
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ echo a3 > foo
$ hg ci -ma3 # 4
$ hg up branchB
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ echo b2 > foo
$ hg ci -mb2 # 5
$ cd ../tt
Should succeed, no new heads:
$ hg pull -u ../t
pulling from ../t
searching for changes
adding changesets
adding manifests
adding file changes
added 2 changesets with 2 changes to 1 files
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
Add a head on other branch:
$ cd ../t
$ hg up branchA
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ echo a4 > foo
$ hg ci -ma4 # 6
$ hg up branchB
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ echo b3.1 > foo
$ hg ci -m b3.1 # 7
$ hg up 5
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ echo b3.2 > foo
$ hg ci -m b3.2 # 8
created new head
$ cd ../tt
Should succeed because there is only one head on our branch:
$ hg pull -u ../t
pulling from ../t
searching for changes
adding changesets
adding manifests
adding file changes
added 3 changesets with 3 changes to 1 files (+1 heads)
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ cd ../t
$ hg up -C branchA
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ echo a5.1 > foo
$ hg ci -ma5.1 # 9
$ hg up 6
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ echo a5.2 > foo
$ hg ci -ma5.2 # 10
created new head
$ hg up 7
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ echo b4.1 > foo
$ hg ci -m b4.1 # 11
$ hg up -C 8
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ echo b4.2 > foo
$ hg ci -m b4.2 # 12
$ cd ../tt
$ hg pull -u ../t
pulling from ../t
searching for changes
adding changesets
adding manifests
adding file changes
added 4 changesets with 4 changes to 1 files (+1 heads)
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
Make changes on new branch on tt
$ hg up 6
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ hg branch branchC
marked working directory as branch branchC
$ echo b1 > bar
$ hg ci -Am "commit on branchC on tt"
adding bar
Make changes on default branch on t
$ cd ../t
$ hg up -C default
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ echo a1 > bar
$ hg ci -Am "commit on default on t"
adding bar
Pull branchC from tt
$ hg pull ../tt
pulling from ../tt
searching for changes
adding changesets
adding manifests
adding file changes
added 1 changesets with 1 changes to 1 files (+1 heads)
(run 'hg heads' to see heads)
Make changes on default and branchC on tt
$ cd ../tt
$ hg pull ../t
pulling from ../t
searching for changes
adding changesets
adding manifests
adding file changes
added 1 changesets with 1 changes to 1 files (+1 heads)
(run 'hg heads' to see heads)
$ hg up -C default
2 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ echo a1 > bar1
$ hg ci -Am "commit on default on tt"
adding bar1
$ hg up branchC
2 files updated, 0 files merged, 1 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ echo a1 > bar2
$ hg ci -Am "commit on branchC on tt"
adding bar2
Make changes on default and branchC on t
$ cd ../t
$ hg up default
0 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ echo a1 > bar3
$ hg ci -Am "commit on default on t"
adding bar3
$ hg up branchC
2 files updated, 0 files merged, 1 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ echo a1 > bar4
$ hg ci -Am "commit on branchC on tt"
adding bar4
Pull from tt
$ hg pull ../tt
pulling from ../tt
searching for changes
adding changesets
adding manifests
adding file changes
added 2 changesets with 2 changes to 2 files (+2 heads)
(run 'hg heads .' to see heads, 'hg merge' to merge)
$ cd ..