view tests/test-empty-file.t @ 42406:f385ba70e4af

changelog: optionally store added and removed files in changeset extras

As mentioned in an earlier patch, copies._chain() is used a lot in the
changeset-centric version of pathcopies(). It is expensive because it
needs to look at the manifest in order to filter out copies whose
target file has since been removed. I want to store the sets of added
and removed files in the changeset in order to speed that up. This
patch does the writing part of that. It could easily be a separate
config, but it's currently tied to experimental.copies.write-to since
that's the only real use case (it will also make the {file_*} template
keywords faster, but I doubt that anyone cares enough about those to
write extra metadata for them).

The new information is stored in the changeset extras. Since they're
always subsets of the changeset's "files" list, they're stored as
indexes into that list. I've stored the indexes as stringified ints
separated by NUL bytes. The size of 00changelog.d for the hg repo
increased in size by 0.28% percent (compared to the size with only
copy information in the changesets, which in turn is 0.17% larger than
without copy information). We could store only the delta between the
indexes and we could store them in binary, but the chosen format is
more readable.

We could also have implemented this as a cache outside the
changelog. One advantage of doing it that way is that we would get the
speedups from the {file_*} template keywords also on old
repos. Another advantage is that it we can rewrite the cache if we
find a bug in how we calculate the set of files. A disadvantage is
that it would be more complex. Another is that it would surely use
more space. We already write the copy information to the changeset
extras, so it seems like a small step to also write these file sets.

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D6416

  $ hg init a
  $ cd a
  $ touch empty1
  $ hg add empty1
  $ hg commit -m 'add empty1'

  $ touch empty2
  $ hg add empty2
  $ hg commit -m 'add empty2'

  $ hg up -C 0
  0 files updated, 0 files merged, 1 files removed, 0 files unresolved
  $ touch empty3
  $ hg add empty3
  $ hg commit -m 'add empty3'
  created new head

  $ hg heads
  changeset:   2:a1cb177e0d44
  tag:         tip
  parent:      0:1e1d9c4e5b64
  user:        test
  date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
  summary:     add empty3
  
  changeset:   1:097d2b0e17f6
  user:        test
  date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
  summary:     add empty2
  

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

Before changeset 05257fd28591, we didn't notice the
empty file that came from rev 1:

  $ hg status
  M empty2
  $ hg commit -m merge
  $ hg manifest --debug tip
  b80de5d138758541c5f05265ad144ab9fa86d1db 644   empty1
  b80de5d138758541c5f05265ad144ab9fa86d1db 644   empty2
  b80de5d138758541c5f05265ad144ab9fa86d1db 644   empty3

  $ cd ..