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documentation: add some internals documentation about bid merge

This is an important algorithm that was only documented on the wiki so far.

Some update to the algorithm (and associated doc) is to expected in the future
since the bid merge algorithm is bug-ridden when it comes to file deletion comes
to play.

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D8711

# bdiff.py - CFFI implementation of bdiff.c
#
# Copyright 2016 Maciej Fijalkowski <[e-mail]>
#
# This software may be used and distributed according to the terms of the
# GNU General Public License version 2 or any later version.

from __future__ import absolute_import

import struct

from ..pure.bdiff import *
from . import _bdiff

ffi = _bdiff.ffi
lib = _bdiff.lib


def blocks(sa, sb):
    a = ffi.new(b"struct bdiff_line**")
    b = ffi.new(b"struct bdiff_line**")
    ac = ffi.new(b"char[]", str(sa))
    bc = ffi.new(b"char[]", str(sb))
    l = ffi.new(b"struct bdiff_hunk*")
    try:
        an = lib.bdiff_splitlines(ac, len(sa), a)
        bn = lib.bdiff_splitlines(bc, len(sb), b)
        if not a[0] or not b[0]:
            raise MemoryError
        count = lib.bdiff_diff(a[0], an, b[0], bn, l)
        if count < 0:
            raise MemoryError
        rl = [None] * count
        h = l.next
        i = 0
        while h:
            rl[i] = (h.a1, h.a2, h.b1, h.b2)
            h = h.next
            i += 1
    finally:
        lib.free(a[0])
        lib.free(b[0])
        lib.bdiff_freehunks(l.next)
    return rl


def bdiff(sa, sb):
    a = ffi.new(b"struct bdiff_line**")
    b = ffi.new(b"struct bdiff_line**")
    ac = ffi.new(b"char[]", str(sa))
    bc = ffi.new(b"char[]", str(sb))
    l = ffi.new(b"struct bdiff_hunk*")
    try:
        an = lib.bdiff_splitlines(ac, len(sa), a)
        bn = lib.bdiff_splitlines(bc, len(sb), b)
        if not a[0] or not b[0]:
            raise MemoryError
        count = lib.bdiff_diff(a[0], an, b[0], bn, l)
        if count < 0:
            raise MemoryError
        rl = []
        h = l.next
        la = lb = 0
        while h:
            if h.a1 != la or h.b1 != lb:
                lgt = (b[0] + h.b1).l - (b[0] + lb).l
                rl.append(
                    struct.pack(
                        b">lll",
                        (a[0] + la).l - a[0].l,
                        (a[0] + h.a1).l - a[0].l,
                        lgt,
                    )
                )
                rl.append(str(ffi.buffer((b[0] + lb).l, lgt)))
            la = h.a2
            lb = h.b2
            h = h.next

    finally:
        lib.free(a[0])
        lib.free(b[0])
        lib.bdiff_freehunks(l.next)
    return b"".join(rl)