perf: add a command to test copies.pathcopies perf An upcoming patch will improve the performance of this function, and this command will be used to demonstrate that improvement.

merge with stable

Added signature for changeset 8a7bd2dccd44

Added tag 2.5.4 for changeset 8a7bd2dccd44

applyupdates: assign variable before we try to use it (issue3855) The variable 'fd' was getting used with a value left over from a prior iteration, causing a KeyError: '.hgsubstate'.

merge with mpm

perf: add a command to test addremove performance Upcoming patches will improve addremove performance. This command will be used to demonstrate that improvement.

merge with crew

dirstate: only call lstat once per flags invocation This makes a big difference to performance in some cases. hg --time locate 'set:symlink()' mozilla-central (70,000 files): before: 2.92 sec after: 2.47 another repo (170,000 files): before: 7.87 sec after: 6.86

util: add functions to check symlink/exec bits These are not yet used.