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
#require svn svn-bindings
$ cat >> $HGRCPATH <<EOF
> [extensions]
> convert =
> EOF
$ convert()
> {
> startrev=$1
> repopath=A-r$startrev-hg
> hg convert --config convert.svn.startrev=$startrev \
> --config convert.svn.trunk=branches/branch1 \
> --config convert.svn.branches=" " \
> --config convert.svn.tags= \
> --datesort svn-repo $repopath
> hg -R $repopath log -G \
> --template '{rev} {desc|firstline} files: {files}\n'
> echo
> }
$ svnadmin create svn-repo
$ svnadmin load -q svn-repo < "$TESTDIR/svn/startrev.svndump"
Convert before branching point
$ convert 3
initializing destination A-r3-hg repository
scanning source...
sorting...
converting...
3 removeb
2 changeaa
1 branch, changeaaa
0 addc,changeaaaa
o 3 addc,changeaaaa files: a c
|
o 2 branch, changeaaa files: a
|
o 1 changeaa files: a
|
o 0 removeb files: a
Convert before branching point
$ convert 4
initializing destination A-r4-hg repository
scanning source...
sorting...
converting...
2 changeaa
1 branch, changeaaa
0 addc,changeaaaa
o 2 addc,changeaaaa files: a c
|
o 1 branch, changeaaa files: a
|
o 0 changeaa files: a
Convert at branching point
$ convert 5
initializing destination A-r5-hg repository
scanning source...
sorting...
converting...
1 branch, changeaaa
0 addc,changeaaaa
o 1 addc,changeaaaa files: a c
|
o 0 branch, changeaaa files: a
Convert last revision only
$ convert 6
initializing destination A-r6-hg repository
scanning source...
sorting...
converting...
0 addc,changeaaaa
o 0 addc,changeaaaa files: a c