view tests/test-excessive-merge.t @ 36672:9e7b14caf67f

xdiff: remove patience and histogram diff algorithms

Patience diff is the normal diff algorithm, plus some greediness that
unconditionally matches common common unique lines.  That means it is easy to
construct cases to let it generate suboptimal result, like:

```
open('a', 'w').write('\n'.join(list('a' + 'x' * 300 + 'u' + 'x' * 700 + 'a\n')))
open('b', 'w').write('\n'.join(list('b' + 'x' * 700 + 'u' + 'x' * 300 + 'b\n')))
```

Patience diff has been advertised as being able to generate better results for
some C code changes. However, the more scientific way to do that is the
indention heuristic [1].

Since patience diff could generate suboptimal result more easily and its
"better" diff feature could be replaced by the new indention heuristic, let's
just remove it and its variant histogram diff to simplify the code.

[1]: https://github.com/git/git/commit/433860f3d0beb0c6f205290bd16cda413148f098

Test Plan:
`gcc -fPIC *.c --shared -o xdiff.so` still builds.

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D2573

  $ 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    offset  length  ..... linkrev nodeid       p1           p2 (re)
       0         0      60  .....       0 5e0375449e74 000000000000 000000000000 (re)
       1        60      62  .....       1 96155394af80 5e0375449e74 000000000000 (re)
       2       122      62  .....       2 92cc4c306b19 5e0375449e74 000000000000 (re)
       3       184      69  .....       3 e16a66a37edd 92cc4c306b19 96155394af80 (re)
       4       253      69  .....       4 2ee31f665a86 96155394af80 92cc4c306b19 (re)

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    offset  length  ..... linkrev nodeid       p1           p2 (re)
       0         0       5  .....       0 2ed2a3912a0b 000000000000 000000000000 (re)
       1         5       6  .....       1 79d7492df40a 2ed2a3912a0b 000000000000 (re)

  $ hg verify
  checking changesets
  checking manifests
  crosschecking files in changesets and manifests
  checking files
  2 files, 5 changesets, 4 total revisions