sparse: --include 'dir1/dir2' should not include 'dir1/*' In 2015 there was a workaround added (f39bace2d6cad32907c0d7961b3c0dbd64a1b7ad) to sparse in the hg-experimental repo. That workaround: a) no longer seems to be needed, since its testcase passes even with the code removed, and b) caused a new problem: --include 'dir1/dir2' ended up including dir1/* too. (--include 'glob:dir1/dir2' is a user-level workaround.) Remove the offending code, and add a testcase for situation B.

fileset: add kind:pat operator ":" isn't taken as a symbol character but an infix operator so we can write e.g. "path:'foo bar'" as well as "'path:foo bar'". An invalid pattern kind is rejected in the former form as we know a kind is specified explicitly. The binding strength is copied from "x:y" range operator of revset. Perhaps it can be adjusted later if we want to parse "foo:bar()" as "(foo:bar)()", not "foo:(bar())". We can also add "kind:" postfix operator if we want. One possible confusion is that the scope of the leading "set:" vs "kind:pat" operator. The former is consumed by a matcher so applies to the whole fileset expression: $ hg files 'set:foo() or kind:bar or baz' ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Whereas the scope of kind:pat operator is narrow: $ hg files 'set:foo() or kind:bar or baz' ^^^

minifileset: unify handling of symbol and string patterns They must be identical for fileset compatibility.

fileset: move import of match module to top Actually there was no circular import issue.

revlog: group delta computation methods under _deltacomputer object Extracting these methods from revlog will allow changing the implementation of the deltacomputer, by providing this interface: __init__(self, revlog) - constructor that initialize the object from a given revlog buildtext(self, revinfo, fh) - builds the fulltext version of a revision from a _revisioninfo object and the file handle to the .d (or .i for inline mode) file. finddeltainfo(self, revinfo, fh) - find a revision in the revlog against which it is acceptable to build a delta, and build the corresponding _deltainfo. It should now be easier to write an experimental feature that would replace _deltacomputer by another object, for example one that would know how to parallelize the delta computation in order to quicken the storage of multiple revisions.

revlog: refactor out _finddeltainfo from _addrevision Splicing the code into smaller chunks should help understanding it, and eventually override some parts in experimental branches to try optimization.