view tests/artifacts/PURPOSE @ 45985:b6b7626d3e06

copies: avoid unwanted side effect from one branch to another

Without this copy, change in a one descendant branch (With "remove" change
only) could affect computation on another descendant branches.

This was not caugh by the test because the test graph are "too simple". I
started writing more test in that regards, but I a submitting this changes
earlier because I want to get more code landed to allow other optimisation work
to happens.

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D9416

This directory is meant to cache artifacts useful for tests (such as bundle).

Those artifacts need to be cached because they are slow to regenerate on each
test but too large to be tracked within the repository. They are not expected
to change between each run and can be cached.

The `./scripts/` contains code to generate the artifact while the `cache`
directory contains resulting artifact.