tests/test-commit-multiple.t

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.

# reproduce issue2264, issue2516

create test repo
  $ cat <<EOF >> $HGRCPATH
  > [extensions]
  > transplant =
  > EOF
  $ hg init repo
  $ cd repo
  $ template="{rev}  {desc|firstline}  [{branch}]\n"

# we need to start out with two changesets on the default branch
# in order to avoid the cute little optimization where transplant
# pulls rather than transplants
add initial changesets
  $ echo feature1 > file1
  $ hg ci -Am"feature 1"
  adding file1
  $ echo feature2 >> file2
  $ hg ci -Am"feature 2"
  adding file2

# The changes to 'bugfix' are enough to show the bug: in fact, with only
# those changes, it's a very noisy crash ("RuntimeError: nothing
# committed after transplant").  But if we modify a second file in the
# transplanted changesets, the bug is much more subtle: transplant
# silently drops the second change to 'bugfix' on the floor, and we only
# see it when we run 'hg status' after transplanting.  Subtle data loss
# bugs are worse than crashes, so reproduce the subtle case here.
commit bug fixes on bug fix branch
  $ hg branch fixes
  marked working directory as branch fixes
  (branches are permanent and global, did you want a bookmark?)
  $ echo fix1 > bugfix
  $ echo fix1 >> file1
  $ hg ci -Am"fix 1"
  adding bugfix
  $ echo fix2 > bugfix
  $ echo fix2 >> file1
  $ hg ci -Am"fix 2"
  $ hg log -G --template="$template"
  @  3  fix 2  [fixes]
  |
  o  2  fix 1  [fixes]
  |
  o  1  feature 2  [default]
  |
  o  0  feature 1  [default]
  
transplant bug fixes onto release branch
  $ hg update 0
  1 files updated, 0 files merged, 2 files removed, 0 files unresolved
  $ hg branch release
  marked working directory as branch release
  $ hg transplant 2 3
  applying [0-9a-f]{12} (re)
  [0-9a-f]{12} transplanted to [0-9a-f]{12} (re)
  applying [0-9a-f]{12} (re)
  [0-9a-f]{12} transplanted to [0-9a-f]{12} (re)
  $ hg log -G --template="$template"
  @  5  fix 2  [release]
  |
  o  4  fix 1  [release]
  |
  | o  3  fix 2  [fixes]
  | |
  | o  2  fix 1  [fixes]
  | |
  | o  1  feature 2  [default]
  |/
  o  0  feature 1  [default]
  
  $ hg status
  $ hg status --rev 0:4
  M file1
  A bugfix
  $ hg status --rev 4:5
  M bugfix
  M file1

now test that we fixed the bug for all scripts/extensions
  $ cat > $TESTTMP/committwice.py <<__EOF__
  > from mercurial import ui, hg, match, node
  > from time import sleep
  > 
  > def replacebyte(fn, b):
  >     f = open(fn, "rb+")
  >     f.seek(0, 0)
  >     f.write(b)
  >     f.close()
  > 
  > def printfiles(repo, rev):
  >     print "revision %s files: %s" % (rev, repo[rev].files())
  > 
  > repo = hg.repository(ui.ui(), '.')
  > assert len(repo) == 6, \
  >        "initial: len(repo): %d, expected: 6" % len(repo)
  > 
  > replacebyte("bugfix", "u")
  > sleep(2)
  > try:
  >     print "PRE: len(repo): %d" % len(repo)
  >     wlock = repo.wlock()
  >     lock = repo.lock()
  >     replacebyte("file1", "x")
  >     repo.commit(text="x", user="test", date=(0, 0))
  >     replacebyte("file1", "y")
  >     repo.commit(text="y", user="test", date=(0, 0))
  >     print "POST: len(repo): %d" % len(repo)
  > finally:
  >     lock.release()
  >     wlock.release()
  > printfiles(repo, 6)
  > printfiles(repo, 7)
  > __EOF__
  $ $PYTHON $TESTTMP/committwice.py
  PRE: len(repo): 6
  POST: len(repo): 8
  revision 6 files: ['bugfix', 'file1']
  revision 7 files: ['file1']

Do a size-preserving modification outside of that process
  $ echo abcd > bugfix
  $ hg status
  M bugfix
  $ hg log --template "{rev}  {desc}  {files}\n" -r5:
  5  fix 2  bugfix file1
  6  x  bugfix file1
  7  y  file1

  $ cd ..