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.
$ cat <<EOF >> $HGRCPATH
> [extensions]
> mq =
> [mq]
> git = keep
> [diff]
> nodates = 1
> EOF
init:
$ hg init repo
$ cd repo
$ echo a > a
$ hg ci -Am adda
adding a
$ echo a >> a
$ hg qnew -f p1
$ echo b >> a
$ hg qnew -f p2
$ echo c >> a
$ hg qnew -f p3
Fold in the middle of the queue:
(this tests also that editor is not invoked if '--edit' is not
specified)
$ hg qpop p1
popping p3
popping p2
now at: p1
$ hg qdiff
diff -r 07f494440405 a
--- a/a
+++ b/a
@@ -1,1 +1,2 @@
a
+a
$ HGEDITOR=cat hg qfold p2
$ grep git .hg/patches/p1 && echo 'git patch found!'
[1]
$ hg qser
p1
p3
$ hg qdiff
diff -r 07f494440405 a
--- a/a
+++ b/a
@@ -1,1 +1,3 @@
a
+a
+b
Fold with local changes:
$ echo d >> a
$ hg qfold p3
abort: local changes found, refresh first
[255]
$ hg diff -c .
diff -r 07f494440405 -r ???????????? a (glob)
--- a/a
+++ b/a
@@ -1,1 +1,3 @@
a
+a
+b
$ hg revert -a --no-backup
reverting a
Fold git patch into a regular patch, expect git patch:
$ echo a >> a
$ hg qnew -f regular
$ hg cp a aa
$ hg qnew --git -f git
$ hg qpop
popping git
now at: regular
$ hg qfold git
$ cat .hg/patches/regular
# HG changeset patch
# Parent ???????????????????????????????????????? (glob)
diff --git a/a b/a
--- a/a
+++ b/a
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
a
a
b
+a
diff --git a/a b/aa
copy from a
copy to aa
--- a/a
+++ b/aa
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
a
a
b
+a
$ hg qpop
popping regular
now at: p1
$ hg qdel regular
Fold regular patch into a git patch, expect git patch:
$ hg cp a aa
$ hg qnew --git -f git
$ echo b >> aa
$ hg qnew -f regular
$ hg qpop
popping regular
now at: git
$ hg qfold regular
$ cat .hg/patches/git
# HG changeset patch
# Parent ???????????????????????????????????????? (glob)
diff --git a/a b/aa
copy from a
copy to aa
--- a/a
+++ b/aa
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
a
a
b
+b
Test saving last-message.txt:
$ hg qrefresh -m "original message"
$ cat > $TESTTMP/commitfailure.py <<EOF
> from mercurial import util
> def reposetup(ui, repo):
> class commitfailure(repo.__class__):
> def commit(self, *args, **kwargs):
> raise util.Abort('emulating unexpected abort')
> repo.__class__ = commitfailure
> EOF
$ cat >> .hg/hgrc <<EOF
> [extensions]
> # this failure occurs before editor invocation
> commitfailure = $TESTTMP/commitfailure.py
> EOF
$ cat > $TESTTMP/editor.sh << EOF
> echo "==== before editing"
> cat \$1
> echo "===="
> (echo; echo "test saving last-message.txt") >> \$1
> EOF
$ hg qapplied
p1
git
$ hg tip --template "{files}\n"
aa
(test that editor is not invoked before transaction starting,
and that combination of '--edit' and '--message' doesn't abort execution)
$ rm -f .hg/last-message.txt
$ HGEDITOR="sh $TESTTMP/editor.sh" hg qfold -e -m MESSAGE p3
refresh interrupted while patch was popped! (revert --all, qpush to recover)
abort: emulating unexpected abort
[255]
$ test -f .hg/last-message.txt
[1]
(reset applied patches and directory status)
$ cat >> .hg/hgrc <<EOF
> [extensions]
> # this failure occurs after editor invocation
> commitfailure = !
> EOF
$ hg qapplied
p1
$ hg status -A aa
? aa
$ rm aa
$ hg status -m
M a
$ hg revert --no-backup -q a
$ hg qpush -q git
now at: git
(test that editor is invoked and commit message is saved into
"last-message.txt")
$ cat >> .hg/hgrc <<EOF
> [hooks]
> # this failure occurs after editor invocation
> pretxncommit.unexpectedabort = false
> EOF
$ rm -f .hg/last-message.txt
$ HGEDITOR="sh $TESTTMP/editor.sh" hg qfold -e p3
==== before editing
original message
HG: Enter commit message. Lines beginning with 'HG:' are removed.
HG: Leave message empty to use default message.
HG: --
HG: user: test
HG: branch 'default'
HG: added aa
HG: changed a
====
transaction abort!
rollback completed
note: commit message saved in .hg/last-message.txt
refresh interrupted while patch was popped! (revert --all, qpush to recover)
abort: pretxncommit.unexpectedabort hook exited with status 1
[255]
$ cat .hg/last-message.txt
original message
test saving last-message.txt
(confirm whether files listed up in the commit message editing are correct)
$ cat >> .hg/hgrc <<EOF
> [hooks]
> pretxncommit.unexpectedabort =
> EOF
$ hg status -u | while read f; do rm ${f}; done
$ hg revert --no-backup -q --all
$ hg qpush -q git
now at: git
$ hg qpush -q --move p3
now at: p3
$ hg status --rev "git^1" --rev . -arm
M a
A aa
$ cd ..