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wireprotov2: define semantics for content redirects

When I implemented the clonebundles feature and deployed it on
hg.mozilla.org using Amazon S3 as a content server, server-side CPU
and bandwidth usage dropped off a cliff and a ton of server scaling
headaches went away pretty much the instant clients with support for
clonebundles were rolled out to Firefox CI.

An obvious takeaway from that experience was that offloading server
load to scalable file servers - potentially backed by a CDN - is a
really good idea. Another takeaway was that Mercurial's wire protocol
wasn't in a good position to support data offload generally.

In wire protocol version 1, there isn't a mechanism in the protocol to
say "grab the data from over here instead." For HTTP, we could teach
the client to follow HTTP redirects. Or we could invent a media type
that encoded redirects inline. But for SSH, we were pretty much out of
luck because that protocol wasn't very flexible.

Wire protocol version 2 offers the opportunity to do something better.

The recent generic server-side content caching layer in the wire
protocol version 2 server demonstrated that it is possible to have
drop-in caching of responses to command requests. This by itself
adds tons of value and already makes the built-in server much more
scalable. But I don't want to stop there.

The existing server-side caching implementation has a big weakness:
it requires the server to send data to the client. This means that
the Mercurial server is potentially sending gigabytes of data to
thousands of clients. This is problematic because compared to scaling
static file servers, scaling dynamic servers is *hard*.

A solution to this is to "offload" serving of content to something
that isn't the Mercurial server. By offloading content serving, you
turn the Mercurial server from a centralized monolithic service to
a distributed mostly-indexing service. Assuming high rates of content
offload, this should drastically reduce the total work performed by
the Mercurial server, both in terms of CPU and data transfer. This
will make Mercurial servers vastly easier to scale.

This commit defines the semantics for "content redirects" in wire
protocol version 2. Essentially:

* Servers advertise the set of locations a response could be served
  from.
* When making requests, clients advertise the set of locations they
  are willing to fetch content from.
* Servers can then replace the inline response with one that says
  "get the response from over here instead."

This feature - when fully implemented - will allow extending the
server-side caching layer to facilitate such things as integrating
your server-side cache with a scalable blob store (such as S3 or
a CDN) and offloading most data transfer to that external service.

This feature could also be leveraged for load balancing. e.g.
requests could come into a central server and then get redirected
to an available mirror depending on server availability or locality.
There's tons of potential :)

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D4774

  $ 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
  new changesets 495a0ec48aaf:50e089d141b7
  (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)
  new changesets 9f878dea0b96:5be59ce5067b
  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
  new changesets 7c8fe7e20c32:453e93fa00a5
  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)
  new changesets da3a8a0161c6:b61cab8fe4e8
  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)
  new changesets 0c4d148ae29e:ecfc3f4a6fd9
  1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
  updated to "d740e1a584e7: a5.2"
  1 other heads for branch "branchA"

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)
  new changesets 7d8ffa4c0b22
  13 local changesets published
  (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)
  new changesets 2b94b54b6b5f
  1 local changesets published
  (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)
  new changesets eed40c14b407:e634733b0309
  1 local changesets published
  (run 'hg heads .' to see heads, 'hg merge' to merge)

  $ cd ..