view tests/test-excessive-merge.t @ 42621:99ebde4fec99

commit: improve the files field of changelog for merges

Currently, the files list of merge commits repeats all the deletions
(either actual deletions, or files that got renamed) that happened
between base and p2 of the merge. If p2 is the main branch, the list
can easily be much bigger than the change being merged.

This results in various problems worth improving:
- changelog is bigger than necessary
- `hg log directory` lists many unrelated merge commits, and `hg log
  -v -r commit` frequently fills multiple screens worth of files
- it possibly slows down adjustlinkrev, by forcing it to read more
  manifests, and that function can certainly be a bottleneck
- the server side of pulls can waste a lot of time simply opening the
  filelogs for pointless files (the constant factors for opening even
  a tiny filelog is apparently pretty bad)

So stop listing such files as described in the code.  Impacted merge
commits and their descendants get a different hash than they would
have without this. This doesn't seem problematic, except for
convert. The previous commit helped with that in the hg->hg case (but
if you do svn->hg twice from scratch, hashes can still change).

The rest of the description is numbers. I don't have much to report,
because recreating the files list of existing repositories is not
easy:
- debugupgradeformat and bundle/unbundle don't recreate the list
- export/import tends to choke quickly applying patches or on
  description that contain diffs,
- merge commits from the convert extension don't have the right files
  list for reasons orthogonal to the current commit
- replaying the merge with hg update/hg merge/hg revert --all/hg
  commit can end up failing in hg revert
- I wasn't sure that using debugsetparents + debugrebuilddirstate
  would really build the right thing

I measured commit time before and after this change, in a case with no
files filtered out, several files filtered out (no difference) and 5k
files filtered out (+1% time).

Recreating the 100 more recent merges in a private repo, the
concatenated uncompressed files lists goes from 1.12MB to
0.52MB. Excluding 3 merges that are not representative, then the size
goes from 570k to 15k.
I converted part of mozilla-central, and observed file list shrinking
quite a bit too, starting at the very first merge, 733641d9feaf, going
from 550 files to 10 files (although they have relatively few merges,
so they probably wouldn't care).

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D6613

  $ hg init

  $ echo foo > a
  $ echo foo > b
  $ hg add a b

  $ hg ci -m "test"

  $ echo blah > a

  $ hg ci -m "branch a"

  $ hg co 0
  1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved

  $ echo blah > b

  $ hg ci -m "branch b"
  created new head
  $ HGMERGE=true hg merge 1
  1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
  (branch merge, don't forget to commit)

  $ hg ci -m "merge b/a -> blah"

  $ hg co 1
  1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
  $ HGMERGE=true hg merge 2
  1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
  (branch merge, don't forget to commit)
  $ hg ci -m "merge a/b -> blah"
  created new head

  $ hg log
  changeset:   4:2ee31f665a86
  tag:         tip
  parent:      1:96155394af80
  parent:      2:92cc4c306b19
  user:        test
  date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
  summary:     merge a/b -> blah
  
  changeset:   3:e16a66a37edd
  parent:      2:92cc4c306b19
  parent:      1:96155394af80
  user:        test
  date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
  summary:     merge b/a -> blah
  
  changeset:   2:92cc4c306b19
  parent:      0:5e0375449e74
  user:        test
  date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
  summary:     branch b
  
  changeset:   1:96155394af80
  user:        test
  date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
  summary:     branch a
  
  changeset:   0:5e0375449e74
  user:        test
  date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
  summary:     test
  
  $ hg debugindex --changelog
     rev linkrev nodeid       p1           p2
       0       0 5e0375449e74 000000000000 000000000000
       1       1 96155394af80 5e0375449e74 000000000000
       2       2 92cc4c306b19 5e0375449e74 000000000000
       3       3 e16a66a37edd 92cc4c306b19 96155394af80
       4       4 2ee31f665a86 96155394af80 92cc4c306b19

revision 1
  $ hg manifest --debug 1
  79d7492df40aa0fa093ec4209be78043c181f094 644   a
  2ed2a3912a0b24502043eae84ee4b279c18b90dd 644   b
revision 2
  $ hg manifest --debug 2
  2ed2a3912a0b24502043eae84ee4b279c18b90dd 644   a
  79d7492df40aa0fa093ec4209be78043c181f094 644   b
revision 3
  $ hg manifest --debug 3
  79d7492df40aa0fa093ec4209be78043c181f094 644   a
  79d7492df40aa0fa093ec4209be78043c181f094 644   b
revision 4
  $ hg manifest --debug 4
  79d7492df40aa0fa093ec4209be78043c181f094 644   a
  79d7492df40aa0fa093ec4209be78043c181f094 644   b

  $ hg debugindex a
     rev linkrev nodeid       p1           p2
       0       0 2ed2a3912a0b 000000000000 000000000000
       1       1 79d7492df40a 2ed2a3912a0b 000000000000

  $ hg verify
  checking changesets
  checking manifests
  crosschecking files in changesets and manifests
  checking files
  checked 5 changesets with 4 changes to 2 files