rust-cpython: testing the bindings from Python This is easier and more convincing than doing the same tests from a Rust tests module. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D5437

rust-cpython: build via HGWITHRUSTEXT=cpython The existing behaviour, building the direct ffi bindings if HGIWTHRUSTEXT is just set is unchanged, but if HGWITHRUSTEXT is cpython, then the cpython bindings (aka mercurial/rustext.so) are built. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D5436

rust: better treatment of cargo/rustc errors Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D5435

rust-cpython: start cpython crate bindings This changeset introduces the hg-cpython crate, that compiles as a shared library holding a whole Python package (mercurial.rustext), with only the empty 'ancestor' submodule for now. Such bindings will be easier and safer to develop and maintain that those of `hg-direct-ffi`. They don't involve C code, only unsafe Rust that's mostly isolated within the cpython crate. The long-term goal would be to import the provided modules, such as rustext.ancestor with mercurial.policy.importmod, same as we already do with cext modules. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D5434

rust-cpython: exclude hgcli from workspace hgcli uses a specific rust-cpython commit by indygreg, of which a PR has been derived which is not merged nor released yet. But we can't use several versions of the sys-python2.7 crate in a single workspace: it makes for a build error. Since hgcli does not at the time being need anything from hg-core, whereas the upcoming hg-cpython will. So for now we're moving hgcli aside, hoping we could base all of them on the same version of rust-cpython again in the future. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D5433

sparse-revlog: protect C code against delta chain including nullrev For unclear reasons, some repositories include nullrev (-1). Re-computing delta for such repo remove nullrev from all chain, so some older versions have been creating them. This currently raise an IndexError with the new C code doing chain slicing as it expect all item to be positive. Both python and C code for reading delta chain preserve nullrev, and the Python code for chain slicing handle the case fine. So we take the safe route and make the new C code works fine in that case.

sparse-revlog: handle nullrev in index_get_length The more generic index_get method handle nullrev fine, we apply the same logic here.

sparse-revlog: handle nullrev in index_get_start The more generic index_get method handle nullrev fine, we apply the same logic here.

revlog: introduce a constant for nullrev in `revlog.c` The value is important enough to be explicitly tracked.

rust: translation of missingancestors This is as direct as possible a translation of the ancestor.missingancestors Python class in pure Rust. The goal for this changeset is to make it easy to compare with the Python version. We also add to Python tests the cases that helped us develop and debug this implementation. Some possible optimizations are marked along the way as TODO comments Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D5416

contrib: provide a small script that draw performance plot We have been using this script to look into the result of various runs of the `hg perfrevlogwrite` command. It seems useful enough to be shared more widely.

delta: filter nullrev out first When picking a potential candidate, we filter them on various criteria. The "different from nullrev" criteria is very fast to compute and we should process it first.