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
$ . $TESTDIR/wireprotohelpers.sh
$ hg init server
$ enablehttpv2 server
$ cd server
$ hg debugdrawdag << EOF
> H I J
> | | |
> E F G
> | |/
> C D
> |/
> B
> |
> A
> EOF
$ hg phase --force --secret J
$ hg phase --public E
$ hg log -r 'E + H + I + G + J' -T '{rev}:{node} {desc} {phase}\n'
4:78d2dca436b2f5b188ac267e29b81e07266d38fc E public
7:ae492e36b0c8339ffaf328d00b85b4525de1165e H draft
8:1d6f6b91d44aaba6d5e580bc30a9948530dbe00b I draft
6:29446d2dc5419c5f97447a8bc062e4cc328bf241 G draft
9:dec04b246d7cbb670c6689806c05ad17c835284e J secret
$ hg serve -p $HGPORT -d --pid-file hg.pid -E error.log
$ cat hg.pid > $DAEMON_PIDS
All non-secret heads returned by default
$ sendhttpv2peer << EOF
> command heads
> EOF
creating http peer for wire protocol version 2
sending heads command
response: [
b'\x1dok\x91\xd4J\xab\xa6\xd5\xe5\x80\xbc0\xa9\x94\x850\xdb\xe0\x0b',
b'\xaeI.6\xb0\xc83\x9f\xfa\xf3(\xd0\x0b\x85\xb4R]\xe1\x16^',
b')Dm-\xc5A\x9c_\x97Dz\x8b\xc0b\xe4\xcc2\x8b\xf2A'
]
Requesting just the public heads works
$ sendhttpv2peer << EOF
> command heads
> publiconly 1
> EOF
creating http peer for wire protocol version 2
sending heads command
response: [
b'x\xd2\xdc\xa46\xb2\xf5\xb1\x88\xac&~)\xb8\x1e\x07&m8\xfc'
]
$ cat error.log