revlog: improve delta generation heuristics for generaldelta
Without this change, pulls (and clones) into a generaldelta repository could
generate very inefficient revlogs, the size of which could be at least twice
the original size.
This was caused by the generated delta chains covering too large distances,
causing new chains to be built far too often. This change addresses the
problem by forcing a delta against second parent or against the previous
revision, when the first parent delta is in danger of creating a long chain.
revlog.parseindex must be able to parse the index file even if
an index entry is split between two 64k blocks. The ideal test
would be to create an index file with inline data where
64k < size < 64k + 64 (64k is the size of the read buffer, 64 is
the size of an index entry) and with an index entry starting right
before the 64k block boundary, and try to read it.
We approximate that by reducing the read buffer to 1 byte.
$ hg init a
$ cd a
$ echo abc > foo
$ hg add foo
$ hg commit -m 'add foo'
$ echo >> foo
$ hg commit -m 'change foo'
$ hg log -r 0:
changeset: 0:7c31755bf9b5
user: test
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
summary: add foo
changeset: 1:26333235a41c
tag: tip
user: test
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
summary: change foo
$ cat >> test.py << EOF
> from mercurial import changelog, scmutil
> from mercurial.node import *
>
> class singlebyteread(object):
> def __init__(self, real):
> self.real = real
>
> def read(self, size=-1):
> if size == 65536:
> size = 1
> return self.real.read(size)
>
> def __getattr__(self, key):
> return getattr(self.real, key)
>
> def opener(*args):
> o = scmutil.opener(*args)
> def wrapper(*a):
> f = o(*a)
> return singlebyteread(f)
> return wrapper
>
> cl = changelog.changelog(opener('.hg/store'))
> print len(cl), 'revisions:'
> for r in cl:
> print short(cl.node(r))
> EOF
$ python test.py
2 revisions:
7c31755bf9b5
26333235a41c