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revlog: linearize created changegroups in generaldelta revlogs

This greatly improves the speed of the bundling process, and often reduces the
bundle size considerably. (Although if the repository is already ordered, this
has little effect on both time and bundle size.)

For non-generaldelta clients, the reduced bundle size translates to a reduced
repository size, similar to shrinking the revlogs (which uses the exact same
algorithm). For generaldelta clients the difference is minor.

When the new bundle format comes, reordering will not be necessary since we
can then store the deltaparent relationsships directly. The eventual default
behavior for clients and servers is presented in the table below, where "new"
implies support for GD as well as the new bundle format:

                    old client                    new client
old server          old bundle, no reorder        old bundle, no reorder
new server, non-GD  old bundle, no reorder[1]     old bundle, no reorder[2]
new server, GD      old bundle, reorder[3]        new bundle, no reorder[4]

[1] reordering is expensive on the server in this case, skip it
[2] client can choose to do its own redelta here
[3] reordering is needed because otherwise the pull does a lot of extra
    work on the server
[4] reordering isn't needed because client can get deltabase in bundle
    format

Currently, the default is to reorder on GD-servers, and not otherwise. A new
setting, bundle.reorder, has been added to override the default reordering
behavior. It can be set to either 'auto' (the default), or any true or false
value as a standard boolean setting, to either force the reordering on or off
regardless of generaldelta.


Some timing data from a relatively branch test repository follows. All
bundling is done with --all --type none options.

Non-generaldelta, non-shrunk repo:
-----------------------------------
Size: 276M

Without reorder (default):
Bundle time: 14.4 seconds
Bundle size: 939M

With reorder:
Bundle time: 1 minute, 29.3 seconds
Bundle size: 381M

Generaldelta, non-shrunk repo:
-----------------------------------
Size: 87M

Without reorder:
Bundle time: 2 minutes, 1.4 seconds
Bundle size: 939M

With reorder (default):
Bundle time: 25.5 seconds
Bundle size: 381M

# repo.py - repository base classes for mercurial
#
# Copyright 2005, 2006 Matt Mackall <[e-mail]>
# Copyright 2006 Vadim Gelfer <[e-mail]>
#
# This software may be used and distributed according to the terms of the
# GNU General Public License version 2 or any later version.

from i18n import _
import error

class repository(object):
    def capable(self, name):
        '''tell whether repo supports named capability.
        return False if not supported.
        if boolean capability, return True.
        if string capability, return string.'''
        if name in self.capabilities:
            return True
        name_eq = name + '='
        for cap in self.capabilities:
            if cap.startswith(name_eq):
                return cap[len(name_eq):]
        return False

    def requirecap(self, name, purpose):
        '''raise an exception if the given capability is not present'''
        if not self.capable(name):
            raise error.CapabilityError(
                _('cannot %s; remote repository does not '
                  'support the %r capability') % (purpose, name))

    def local(self):
        return False

    def cancopy(self):
        return self.local()

    def close(self):
        pass