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context: call normal on the right object
dirstate.normal is the method that marks files as unchanged/normal.
Rev 20a30cd41d21 started caching dirstate.normal in order to improve
performance. However, there was an error in the patch: taking the wlock, under
some conditions depending on platform, can cause a new dirstate object to be
created. Caching dirstate.normal before calling wlock would then cause the
fixup calls below to be on the old dirstate object, effectively disappearing
into the ether.
On Unix and Unix-like OSes, the condition under which we create a new dirstate
object is 'the dirstate file has been modified since the last time we opened
it'. This happens pretty rarely, so the object is usually the same -- there's
little impact.
On Windows, the condition is 'always'. This means files in the lookup state are
never marked normal, so the bug has a serious performance impact since all the
files in the lookup state are re-read every time hg status is run.
author | Siddharth Agarwal <sid0@fb.com> |
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date | Fri, 01 Aug 2014 18:30:18 -0700 |
parents | f1a3ae7c15df |
children | 7072b91ccd20 |
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Synopsis ======== The Mercurial system uses a file called ``.hgignore`` in the root directory of a repository to control its behavior when it searches for files that it is not currently tracking. Description =========== The working directory of a Mercurial repository will often contain files that should not be tracked by Mercurial. These include backup files created by editors and build products created by compilers. These files can be ignored by listing them in a ``.hgignore`` file in the root of the working directory. The ``.hgignore`` file must be created manually. It is typically put under version control, so that the settings will propagate to other repositories with push and pull. An untracked file is ignored if its path relative to the repository root directory, or any prefix path of that path, is matched against any pattern in ``.hgignore``. For example, say we have an untracked file, ``file.c``, at ``a/b/file.c`` inside our repository. Mercurial will ignore ``file.c`` if any pattern in ``.hgignore`` matches ``a/b/file.c``, ``a/b`` or ``a``. In addition, a Mercurial configuration file can reference a set of per-user or global ignore files. See the ``ignore`` configuration key on the ``[ui]`` section of :hg:`help config` for details of how to configure these files. To control Mercurial's handling of files that it manages, many commands support the ``-I`` and ``-X`` options; see :hg:`help <command>` and :hg:`help patterns` for details. Files that are already tracked are not affected by .hgignore, even if they appear in .hgignore. An untracked file X can be explicitly added with :hg:`add X`, even if X would be excluded by a pattern in .hgignore. Syntax ====== An ignore file is a plain text file consisting of a list of patterns, with one pattern per line. Empty lines are skipped. The ``#`` character is treated as a comment character, and the ``\`` character is treated as an escape character. Mercurial supports several pattern syntaxes. The default syntax used is Python/Perl-style regular expressions. To change the syntax used, use a line of the following form:: syntax: NAME where ``NAME`` is one of the following: ``regexp`` Regular expression, Python/Perl syntax. ``glob`` Shell-style glob. The chosen syntax stays in effect when parsing all patterns that follow, until another syntax is selected. Neither glob nor regexp patterns are rooted. A glob-syntax pattern of the form ``*.c`` will match a file ending in ``.c`` in any directory, and a regexp pattern of the form ``\.c$`` will do the same. To root a regexp pattern, start it with ``^``. .. note:: Patterns specified in other than ``.hgignore`` are always rooted. Please see :hg:`help patterns` for details. Example ======= Here is an example ignore file. :: # use glob syntax. syntax: glob *.elc *.pyc *~ # switch to regexp syntax. syntax: regexp ^\.pc/