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clonebundles: support for seeding clones from pre-generated bundles

Cloning can be an expensive operation for servers because the server
generates a bundle from existing repository data at request time. For
a large repository like mozilla-central, this consumes 4+ minutes
of CPU time on the server. It also results in significant network
utilization. Multiplied by hundreds or even thousands of clients and
the ensuing load can result in difficulties scaling the Mercurial server.

Despite generation of bundles being deterministic until the next
changeset is added, the generation of bundles to service a clone request
is not cached. Each clone thus performs redundant work. This is
wasteful.

This patch introduces the "clonebundles" extension and related
client-side functionality to help alleviate this deficiency. The
client-side feature is behind an experimental flag and is not enabled by
default.

It works as follows:

1) Server operator generates a bundle and makes it available on a
   server (likely HTTP).
2) Server operator defines the URL of a bundle file in a
   .hg/clonebundles.manifest file.
3) Client `hg clone`ing sees the server is advertising bundle URLs.
4) Client fetches and applies the advertised bundle.
5) Client performs equivalent of `hg pull` to fetch changes made since
   the bundle was created.

Essentially, the server performs the expensive work of generating a
bundle once and all subsequent clones fetch a static file from
somewhere. Scaling static file serving is a much more manageable
problem than scaling a Python application like Mercurial. Assuming your
repository grows less than 1% per day, the end result is 99+% of CPU
and network load from clones is eliminated, allowing Mercurial servers
to scale more easily. Serving static files also means data can be
transferred to clients as fast as they can consume it, rather than as
fast as servers can generate it. This makes clones faster.

Mozilla has implemented similar functionality of this patch on
hg.mozilla.org using a custom extension. We are hosting bundle files in
Amazon S3 and CloudFront (a CDN) and have successfully offloaded
>1 TB/day in data transfer from hg.mozilla.org, freeing up significant
bandwidth and CPU resources. The positive impact has been stellar and
I believe it has proved its value to be included in Mercurial core. I
feel it is important for the client-side support to be enabled in core
by default because it means that clients will get faster, more reliable
clones and will enable server operators to reduce load without
requiring any client-side configuration changes (assuming clients are
up to date, of course).

The scope of this feature is narrowly and specifically tailored to
cloning, despite "serve pulls from pre-generated bundles" being a valid
and useful feature. I would eventually like for Mercurial servers to
support transferring *all* repository data via statically hosted files.
You could imagine a server that siphons all pushed data to bundle files
and instructs clients to apply a stream of bundles to reconstruct all
repository data. This feature, while useful and powerful, is
significantly more work to implement because it requires the server
component have awareness of discovery and a mapping of which changesets
are in which files. Full, clone bundles, by contrast, are much simpler.

The wire protocol command is named "clonebundles" instead of something
more generic like "staticbundles" to leave the door open for a new, more
powerful and more generic server-side component with minimal backwards
compatibility implications. The name "bundleclone" is used by Mozilla's
extension and would cause problems since there are subtle differences
in Mozilla's extension.

Mozilla's experience with this idea has taught us that some form of
"content negotiation" is required. Not all clients will support all
bundle formats or even URLs (advanced TLS requirements, etc). To ensure
the highest uptake possible, a server needs to advertise multiple
versions of bundles and clients need to be able to choose the most
appropriate from that list one. The "attributes" in each
server-advertised entry facilitate this filtering and sorting. Their
use will become apparent in subsequent patches.

Initial inspiration and credit for the idea of cloning from static files
belongs to Augie Fackler and his "lookaside clone" extension proof of
concept.

Create configuration

  $ echo "[ui]" >> $HGRCPATH
  $ echo "interactive=true" >> $HGRCPATH

help record (no record)

  $ hg help record
  record extension - commands to interactively select changes for
  commit/qrefresh
  
  (use "hg help extensions" for information on enabling extensions)

help qrecord (no record)

  $ hg help qrecord
  'qrecord' is provided by the following extension:
  
      record        commands to interactively select changes for commit/qrefresh
  
  (use "hg help extensions" for information on enabling extensions)

  $ echo "[extensions]"     >> $HGRCPATH
  $ echo "record="          >> $HGRCPATH

help record (record)

  $ hg help record
  hg record [OPTION]... [FILE]...
  
  interactively select changes to commit
  
      If a list of files is omitted, all changes reported by "hg status" will be
      candidates for recording.
  
      See "hg help dates" for a list of formats valid for -d/--date.
  
      You will be prompted for whether to record changes to each modified file,
      and for files with multiple changes, for each change to use. For each
      query, the following responses are possible:
  
        y - record this change
        n - skip this change
        e - edit this change manually
  
        s - skip remaining changes to this file
        f - record remaining changes to this file
  
        d - done, skip remaining changes and files
        a - record all changes to all remaining files
        q - quit, recording no changes
  
        ? - display help
  
      This command is not available when committing a merge.
  
  options ([+] can be repeated):
  
   -A --addremove           mark new/missing files as added/removed before
                            committing
      --close-branch        mark a branch head as closed
      --amend               amend the parent of the working directory
   -s --secret              use the secret phase for committing
   -e --edit                invoke editor on commit messages
   -I --include PATTERN [+] include names matching the given patterns
   -X --exclude PATTERN [+] exclude names matching the given patterns
   -m --message TEXT        use text as commit message
   -l --logfile FILE        read commit message from file
   -d --date DATE           record the specified date as commit date
   -u --user USER           record the specified user as committer
   -S --subrepos            recurse into subrepositories
   -w --ignore-all-space    ignore white space when comparing lines
   -b --ignore-space-change ignore changes in the amount of white space
   -B --ignore-blank-lines  ignore changes whose lines are all blank
  
  (some details hidden, use --verbose to show complete help)

help (no mq, so no qrecord)

  $ hg help qrecord
  hg qrecord [OPTION]... PATCH [FILE]...
  
  interactively record a new patch
  
      See "hg help qnew" & "hg help record" for more information and usage.
  
  (some details hidden, use --verbose to show complete help)

  $ hg init a

qrecord (mq not present)

  $ hg -R a qrecord
  hg qrecord: invalid arguments
  hg qrecord [OPTION]... PATCH [FILE]...
  
  interactively record a new patch
  
  (use "hg qrecord -h" to show more help)
  [255]

qrecord patch (mq not present)

  $ hg -R a qrecord patch
  abort: 'mq' extension not loaded
  [255]

help (bad mq)

  $ echo "mq=nonexistent" >> $HGRCPATH
  $ hg help qrecord
  *** failed to import extension mq from nonexistent: [Errno *] * (glob)
  hg qrecord [OPTION]... PATCH [FILE]...
  
  interactively record a new patch
  
      See "hg help qnew" & "hg help record" for more information and usage.
  
  (some details hidden, use --verbose to show complete help)

help (mq present)

  $ sed 's/mq=nonexistent/mq=/' $HGRCPATH > hgrc.tmp
  $ mv hgrc.tmp $HGRCPATH

  $ hg help qrecord
  hg qrecord [OPTION]... PATCH [FILE]...
  
  interactively record a new patch
  
      See "hg help qnew" & "hg help record" for more information and usage.
  
  options ([+] can be repeated):
  
   -e --edit                invoke editor on commit messages
   -g --git                 use git extended diff format
   -U --currentuser         add "From: <current user>" to patch
   -u --user USER           add "From: <USER>" to patch
   -D --currentdate         add "Date: <current date>" to patch
   -d --date DATE           add "Date: <DATE>" to patch
   -I --include PATTERN [+] include names matching the given patterns
   -X --exclude PATTERN [+] exclude names matching the given patterns
   -m --message TEXT        use text as commit message
   -l --logfile FILE        read commit message from file
   -w --ignore-all-space    ignore white space when comparing lines
   -b --ignore-space-change ignore changes in the amount of white space
   -B --ignore-blank-lines  ignore changes whose lines are all blank
      --mq                  operate on patch repository
  
  (some details hidden, use --verbose to show complete help)

  $ cd a

Base commit

  $ cat > 1.txt <<EOF
  > 1
  > 2
  > 3
  > 4
  > 5
  > EOF
  $ cat > 2.txt <<EOF
  > a
  > b
  > c
  > d
  > e
  > f
  > EOF

  $ mkdir dir
  $ cat > dir/a.txt <<EOF
  > hello world
  > 
  > someone
  > up
  > there
  > loves
  > me
  > EOF

  $ hg add 1.txt 2.txt dir/a.txt
  $ hg commit -m 'initial checkin'

Changing files

  $ sed -e 's/2/2 2/;s/4/4 4/' 1.txt > 1.txt.new
  $ sed -e 's/b/b b/' 2.txt > 2.txt.new
  $ sed -e 's/hello world/hello world!/' dir/a.txt > dir/a.txt.new

  $ mv -f 1.txt.new 1.txt
  $ mv -f 2.txt.new 2.txt
  $ mv -f dir/a.txt.new dir/a.txt

Whole diff

  $ hg diff --nodates
  diff -r 1057167b20ef 1.txt
  --- a/1.txt
  +++ b/1.txt
  @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
   1
  -2
  +2 2
   3
  -4
  +4 4
   5
  diff -r 1057167b20ef 2.txt
  --- a/2.txt
  +++ b/2.txt
  @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
   a
  -b
  +b b
   c
   d
   e
  diff -r 1057167b20ef dir/a.txt
  --- a/dir/a.txt
  +++ b/dir/a.txt
  @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
  -hello world
  +hello world!
   
   someone
   up

qrecord with bad patch name, should abort before prompting

  $ hg qrecord .hg
  abort: patch name cannot begin with ".hg"
  [255]

qrecord a.patch

  $ hg qrecord -d '0 0' -m aaa a.patch <<EOF
  > y
  > y
  > n
  > y
  > y
  > n
  > EOF
  diff --git a/1.txt b/1.txt
  2 hunks, 2 lines changed
  examine changes to '1.txt'? [Ynesfdaq?] y
  
  @@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
   1
  -2
  +2 2
   3
  record change 1/4 to '1.txt'? [Ynesfdaq?] y
  
  @@ -3,3 +3,3 @@
   3
  -4
  +4 4
   5
  record change 2/4 to '1.txt'? [Ynesfdaq?] n
  
  diff --git a/2.txt b/2.txt
  1 hunks, 1 lines changed
  examine changes to '2.txt'? [Ynesfdaq?] y
  
  @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
   a
  -b
  +b b
   c
   d
   e
  record change 3/4 to '2.txt'? [Ynesfdaq?] y
  
  diff --git a/dir/a.txt b/dir/a.txt
  1 hunks, 1 lines changed
  examine changes to 'dir/a.txt'? [Ynesfdaq?] n
  

After qrecord a.patch 'tip'"

  $ hg tip -p
  changeset:   1:5d1ca63427ee
  tag:         a.patch
  tag:         qbase
  tag:         qtip
  tag:         tip
  user:        test
  date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
  summary:     aaa
  
  diff -r 1057167b20ef -r 5d1ca63427ee 1.txt
  --- a/1.txt	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
  +++ b/1.txt	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
  @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
   1
  -2
  +2 2
   3
   4
   5
  diff -r 1057167b20ef -r 5d1ca63427ee 2.txt
  --- a/2.txt	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
  +++ b/2.txt	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
  @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
   a
  -b
  +b b
   c
   d
   e
  

After qrecord a.patch 'diff'"

  $ hg diff --nodates
  diff -r 5d1ca63427ee 1.txt
  --- a/1.txt
  +++ b/1.txt
  @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
   1
   2 2
   3
  -4
  +4 4
   5
  diff -r 5d1ca63427ee dir/a.txt
  --- a/dir/a.txt
  +++ b/dir/a.txt
  @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
  -hello world
  +hello world!
   
   someone
   up

qrecord b.patch

  $ hg qrecord -d '0 0' -m bbb b.patch <<EOF
  > y
  > y
  > y
  > y
  > EOF
  diff --git a/1.txt b/1.txt
  1 hunks, 1 lines changed
  examine changes to '1.txt'? [Ynesfdaq?] y
  
  @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
   1
   2 2
   3
  -4
  +4 4
   5
  record change 1/2 to '1.txt'? [Ynesfdaq?] y
  
  diff --git a/dir/a.txt b/dir/a.txt
  1 hunks, 1 lines changed
  examine changes to 'dir/a.txt'? [Ynesfdaq?] y
  
  @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
  -hello world
  +hello world!
   
   someone
   up
  record change 2/2 to 'dir/a.txt'? [Ynesfdaq?] y
  

After qrecord b.patch 'tip'

  $ hg tip -p
  changeset:   2:b056198bf878
  tag:         b.patch
  tag:         qtip
  tag:         tip
  user:        test
  date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
  summary:     bbb
  
  diff -r 5d1ca63427ee -r b056198bf878 1.txt
  --- a/1.txt	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
  +++ b/1.txt	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
  @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
   1
   2 2
   3
  -4
  +4 4
   5
  diff -r 5d1ca63427ee -r b056198bf878 dir/a.txt
  --- a/dir/a.txt	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
  +++ b/dir/a.txt	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
  @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
  -hello world
  +hello world!
   
   someone
   up
  

After qrecord b.patch 'diff'

  $ hg diff --nodates

  $ cd ..