mercurial/exewrapper.c

revlog: change generaldelta delta parent heuristic

The old generaldelta heuristic was "if p1 (or p2) was closer than the last full text,
use it, otherwise use prev". This was problematic when a repo contained multiple
branches that were very different. If commits to branch A were pushed, and the
last full text was branch B, it would generate a fulltext. Then if branch B was
pushed, it would generate another fulltext. The problem is that the last
fulltext (and delta'ing against `prev` in general) has no correlation with the
contents of the incoming revision, and therefore will always have degenerate
cases.

According to the blame, that algorithm was chosen to minimize the chain length.
Since there is already code that protects against that (the delta-vs-fulltext
code), and since it has been improved since the original generaldelta algorithm
went in (2011), I believe the chain length criteria will still be preserved.

The new algorithm always diffs against p1 (or p2 if it's closer), unless the
resulting delta will fail the delta-vs-fulltext check, in which case we delta
against prev.

Some before and after stats on manifest.d size.

internal large repo
old heuristic - 2.0 GB
new heuristic - 1.2 GB

mozilla-central
old heuristic - 242 MB
new heuristic - 261 MB

The regression in mozilla central is due to the new heuristic choosing p2r as
the delta when it's closer to the tip. Switching the algorithm to always prefer
p1r brings the size back down (242 MB). This is result of the way in which
mozilla does merges and pushes, and the result could easily swing the other
direction in other repos (depending on if they merge X into Y or Y into X), but
will never be as degenerate as before.

I future patch will address the regression by introducing an optional, even more
aggressive delta heuristic which will knock the mozilla manifest size down
dramatically.

/*
 exewrapper.c - wrapper for calling a python script on Windows

 Copyright 2012 Adrian Buehlmann <[e-mail]> and others

 This software may be used and distributed according to the terms of the
 GNU General Public License version 2 or any later version.
*/

#include <stdio.h>
#include <windows.h>

#include "hgpythonlib.h"

#ifdef __GNUC__
int strcat_s(char *d, size_t n, const char *s)
{
	return !strncat(d, s, n);
}
int strcpy_s(char *d, size_t n, const char *s)
{
	return !strncpy(d, s, n);
}
#endif


static char pyscript[MAX_PATH + 10];
static char pyhome[MAX_PATH + 10];
static char envpyhome[MAX_PATH + 10];
static char pydllfile[MAX_PATH + 10];

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
	char *p;
	int ret;
	int i;
	int n;
	char **pyargv;
	WIN32_FIND_DATA fdata;
	HANDLE hfind;
	const char *err;
	HMODULE pydll;
	void (__cdecl *Py_SetPythonHome)(char *home);
	int (__cdecl *Py_Main)(int argc, char *argv[]);

	if (GetModuleFileName(NULL, pyscript, sizeof(pyscript)) == 0)
	{
		err = "GetModuleFileName failed";
		goto bail;
	}

	p = strrchr(pyscript, '.');
	if (p == NULL) {
		err = "malformed module filename";
		goto bail;
	}
	*p = 0; /* cut trailing ".exe" */
	strcpy_s(pyhome, sizeof(pyhome), pyscript);

	hfind = FindFirstFile(pyscript, &fdata);
	if (hfind != INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE) {
		/* pyscript exists, close handle */
		FindClose(hfind);
	} else {
		/* file pyscript isn't there, take <pyscript>exe.py */
		strcat_s(pyscript, sizeof(pyscript), "exe.py");
	}

	pydll = NULL;
	if (GetEnvironmentVariable("PYTHONHOME", envpyhome,
				   sizeof(envpyhome)) == 0)
	{
		/* environment var PYTHONHOME is not set */

		p = strrchr(pyhome, '\\');
		if (p == NULL) {
			err = "can't find backslash in module filename";
			goto bail;
		}
		*p = 0; /* cut at directory */

		/* check for private Python of HackableMercurial */
		strcat_s(pyhome, sizeof(pyhome), "\\hg-python");

		hfind = FindFirstFile(pyhome, &fdata);
		if (hfind != INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE) {
			/* path pyhome exists, let's use it */
			FindClose(hfind);
			strcpy_s(pydllfile, sizeof(pydllfile), pyhome);
			strcat_s(pydllfile, sizeof(pydllfile), "\\" HGPYTHONLIB);
			pydll = LoadLibrary(pydllfile);
			if (pydll == NULL) {
				err = "failed to load private Python DLL";
				goto bail;
			}
			Py_SetPythonHome = (void*)GetProcAddress(pydll,
							"Py_SetPythonHome");
			if (Py_SetPythonHome == NULL) {
				err = "failed to get Py_SetPythonHome";
				goto bail;
			}
			Py_SetPythonHome(pyhome);
		}
	}

	if (pydll == NULL) {
		pydll = LoadLibrary(HGPYTHONLIB);
		if (pydll == NULL) {
			err = "failed to load Python DLL";
			goto bail;
		}
	}

	Py_Main = (void*)GetProcAddress(pydll, "Py_Main");
	if (Py_Main == NULL) {
		err = "failed to get Py_Main";
		goto bail;
	}

	/*
	Only add the pyscript to the args, if it's not already there. It may
	already be there, if the script spawned a child process of itself, in
	the same way as it got called, that is, with the pyscript already in
	place. So we optionally accept the pyscript as the first argument
	(argv[1]), letting our exe taking the role of the python interpreter.
	*/
	if (argc >= 2 && strcmp(argv[1], pyscript) == 0) {
		/*
		pyscript is already in the args, so there is no need to copy
		the args and we can directly call the python interpreter with
		the original args.
		*/
		return Py_Main(argc, argv);
	}

	/*
	Start assembling the args for the Python interpreter call. We put the
	name of our exe (argv[0]) in the position where the python.exe
	canonically is, and insert the pyscript next.
	*/
	pyargv = malloc((argc + 5) * sizeof(char*));
	if (pyargv == NULL) {
		err = "not enough memory";
		goto bail;
	}
	n = 0;
	pyargv[n++] = argv[0];
	pyargv[n++] = pyscript;

	/* copy remaining args from the command line */
	for (i = 1; i < argc; i++)
		pyargv[n++] = argv[i];
	/* argv[argc] is guaranteed to be NULL, so we forward that guarantee */
	pyargv[n] = NULL;

	ret = Py_Main(n, pyargv); /* The Python interpreter call */

	free(pyargv);
	return ret;

bail:
	fprintf(stderr, "abort: %s\n", err);
	return 255;
}