nodemap: add a (python) index class for persistent nodemap testing
Using the persistent nodemap require a compeling performance boost and an
existing implementation. The benefit of the persistent nodemap for pure python
code is unclear and we don't have a C implementation for it. Yet we would like
to actually start testing it in more details and define an API for using that
persistent nodemap.
We introduce a new `devel` config option to use an index class dedicated to
Nodemap Testing. This feature is "pure" only because having using a pure-python
index with the `cext` policy proved more difficult than I would like.
There is nothing going on in that class for now, but the coming changeset will
change that.
Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D7840
Set up
$ hg init repo
$ cd repo
Try to import an empty patch
$ hg import --no-commit - <<EOF
> EOF
applying patch from stdin
abort: stdin: no diffs found
[255]
No dirstate backups are left behind
$ ls .hg/dirstate* | sort
.hg/dirstate