view tests/test-empty-group.t @ 46607:e9901d01d135

revlog: add a mechanism to verify expected file position before appending

If someone uses `hg debuglocks`, or some non-hg process writes to the .hg
directory without respecting the locks, or if the repo's on a networked
filesystem, it's possible for the revlog code to write out corrupted data.

The form of this corruption can vary depending on what data was written and how
that happened. We are in the "networked filesystem" case (though I've had users
also do this to themselves with the "`hg debuglocks`" scenario), and most often
see this with the changelog. What ends up happening is we produce two items
(let's call them rev1 and rev2) in the .i file that have the same linkrev,
baserev, and offset into the .d file, while the data in the .d file is appended
properly. rev2's compressed_size is accurate for rev2, but when we go to
decompress the data in the .d file, we use the offset that's recorded in the
index file, which is the same as rev1, and attempt to decompress
rev2.compressed_size bytes of rev1's data. This usually does not succeed. :)

When using inline data, this also fails, though I haven't investigated why too
closely. This shows up as a "patch decode" error. I believe what's happening
there is that we're basically ignoring the offset field, getting the data
properly, but since baserev != rev, it thinks this is a delta based on rev
(instead of a full text) and can't actually apply it as such.

For now, I'm going to make this an optional component and default it to entirely
off. I may increase the default severity of this in the future, once I've
enabled it for my users and we gain more experience with it. Luckily, most of my
users have a versioned filesystem and can roll back to before the corruption has
been written, it's just a hassle to do so and not everyone knows how (so it's a
support burden). Users on other filesystems will not have that luxury, and this
can cause them to have a corrupted repository that they are unlikely to know how
to resolve, and they'll see this as a data-loss event. Refusing to create the
corruption is a much better user experience.

This mechanism is not perfect. There may be false-negatives (racy writes that
are not detected). There should not be any false-positives (non-racy writes that
are detected as such). This is not a mechanism that makes putting a repo on a
networked filesystem "safe" or "supported", just *less* likely to cause
corruption.

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D9952

#  A          B
#
#  3  4       3
#  |\/|       |\
#  |/\|       | \
#  1  2       1  2
#  \ /        \ /
#   0          0
#
# if the result of the merge of 1 and 2
# is the same in 3 and 4, no new manifest
# will be created and the manifest group
# will be empty during the pull
#
# (plus we test a failure where outgoing
# wrongly reported the number of csets)

  $ hg init a
  $ cd a
  $ touch init
  $ hg ci -A -m 0
  adding init
  $ touch x y
  $ hg ci -A -m 1
  adding x
  adding y

  $ hg update 0
  0 files updated, 0 files merged, 2 files removed, 0 files unresolved
  $ touch x y
  $ hg ci -A -m 2
  adding x
  adding y
  created new head

  $ hg merge 1
  0 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
  (branch merge, don't forget to commit)
  $ hg ci -A -m m1

  $ hg update -C 1
  0 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
  $ hg merge 2
  0 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
  (branch merge, don't forget to commit)
  $ hg ci -A -m m2
  created new head

  $ cd ..

  $ hg clone -r 3 a b
  adding changesets
  adding manifests
  adding file changes
  added 4 changesets with 3 changes to 3 files
  new changesets 5fcb73622933:d15a0c284984
  updating to branch default
  3 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved

  $ hg clone -r 4 a c
  adding changesets
  adding manifests
  adding file changes
  added 4 changesets with 3 changes to 3 files
  new changesets 5fcb73622933:1ec3c74fc0e0
  updating to branch default
  3 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved

  $ hg -R a outgoing b
  comparing with b
  searching for changes
  changeset:   4:1ec3c74fc0e0
  tag:         tip
  parent:      1:79f9e10cd04e
  parent:      2:8e1bb01c1a24
  user:        test
  date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
  summary:     m2
  
  $ hg -R a outgoing c
  comparing with c
  searching for changes
  changeset:   3:d15a0c284984
  parent:      2:8e1bb01c1a24
  parent:      1:79f9e10cd04e
  user:        test
  date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
  summary:     m1
  
  $ hg -R b outgoing c
  comparing with c
  searching for changes
  changeset:   3:d15a0c284984
  tag:         tip
  parent:      2:8e1bb01c1a24
  parent:      1:79f9e10cd04e
  user:        test
  date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
  summary:     m1
  
  $ hg -R c outgoing b
  comparing with b
  searching for changes
  changeset:   3:1ec3c74fc0e0
  tag:         tip
  parent:      1:79f9e10cd04e
  parent:      2:8e1bb01c1a24
  user:        test
  date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
  summary:     m2
  

  $ hg -R b pull a
  pulling from a
  searching for changes
  adding changesets
  adding manifests
  adding file changes
  added 1 changesets with 0 changes to 0 files (+1 heads)
  new changesets 1ec3c74fc0e0
  (run 'hg heads' to see heads, 'hg merge' to merge)

  $ hg -R c pull a
  pulling from a
  searching for changes
  adding changesets
  adding manifests
  adding file changes
  added 1 changesets with 0 changes to 0 files (+1 heads)
  new changesets d15a0c284984
  (run 'hg heads' to see heads, 'hg merge' to merge)