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snapshot: try intermediate snapshot against parents' base

# Regarding The Series Started By This Changeset

This is the first changesets of a group adjusting delta chain strategy to
build a useful chain of intermediate snapshots. The series will introduce a
full strategy to produce chains of multiple snapshots on top of which a
"usual" delta chain will be built.

That strategy will have multiple steps to maximize snapshot reuse, avoiding
pathological cases and improving overall compression in very branchy
repositories. An important property of sparse-revlog using such snapshot-chain
is that they can use very short delta chain without problematic impact on the
resulting compression. Shorter delta chains are important to achieve good
performance.

To make each step clear, we'll introduce them one by one.

See the end of this series for full details.

# Regarding This Changeset

Before this change, if we cannot store the current revision as a delta against
a "simple" candidate (p1, p2, prev), we created a new level-0 snapshot (also
called full snapshot).

As the first step, we introduce a simple strategy: try an intermediate level-1
snapshot against the chain base of the "current revision" parents.
The "current revision" is the one we are currently trying to store in the
revlog, triggering this search for a good delta base.
The first item in the chain is always a level-0 snapshot.

# Effect On The Test Repository

We can already see the effect on the test-repository. Most of the snapshots
have shifted from level 0 to level 1. The overall size has slightly decreased.
(However, keep in mind that this repository only emulates real data)

# Regarding Statistic

The current series focuses on improving the chain built. Improving the
performance of this logic will be done as a second step. Sparse-revlog is
still experimental and disabled by default.

We'll provide more statistic about resulting size and delta chain at the end
of this series.

https://bz.mercurial-scm.org/522

In the merge below, the file "foo" has the same contents in both
parents, but if we look at the file-level history, we'll notice that
the version in p1 is an ancestor of the version in p2. This test makes
sure that we'll use the version from p2 in the manifest of the merge
revision.

  $ hg init

  $ echo foo > foo
  $ hg ci -qAm 'add foo'

  $ echo bar >> foo
  $ hg ci -m 'change foo'

  $ hg backout -r tip -m 'backout changed foo'
  reverting foo
  changeset 2:4d9e78aaceee backs out changeset 1:b515023e500e

  $ hg up -C 0
  1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved

  $ touch bar
  $ hg ci -qAm 'add bar'

  $ hg merge --debug
    searching for copies back to rev 1
    unmatched files in local:
     bar
  resolving manifests
   branchmerge: True, force: False, partial: False
   ancestor: bbd179dfa0a7, local: 71766447bdbb+, remote: 4d9e78aaceee
   foo: remote is newer -> g
  getting foo
  1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
  (branch merge, don't forget to commit)

  $ hg debugstate | grep foo
  m   0         -2 unset               foo

  $ hg st -A foo
  M foo

  $ hg ci -m 'merge'

  $ hg manifest --debug | grep foo
  c6fc755d7e68f49f880599da29f15add41f42f5a 644   foo

  $ hg debugindex foo
     rev linkrev nodeid       p1           p2
       0       0 2ed2a3912a0b 000000000000 000000000000
       1       1 6f4310b00b9a 2ed2a3912a0b 000000000000
       2       2 c6fc755d7e68 6f4310b00b9a 000000000000