changelog: rework the delayupdate mechanism The current way we use the 'delayupdate' mechanism is wrong. We call 'delayupdate' right after the transaction retrieval, then we call 'finalize' right before calling 'tr.close()'. The 'finalize' call will -always- result in a flush to disk, making the data available to all readers. But the 'tr.close()' may be a no-op if the transaction is nested. This would result in data: 1) exposed to reader too early, 2) rolled back by other part of the transaction after such exposure So we need to end up in a situation where we call 'finalize' a single time when the transaction actually closes. For this purpose we need to be able to call 'delayupdate' and '_writepending' multiple times and 'finalize' once. This was not possible with the previous state of the code. This changeset refactors the code to makes this possible. We buffer data in memory as much as possible and fall-back to writing to a ".a" file after the first call to '_writepending'.

merge with stable

bookmarks: fix formatting of exchange message (issue4439) The message formatting was crashing when doing explicit pulling `hg pull -B X`. This changeset fix it and improved the test coverage.

test-status-rev: document one more broken test The status for missing_content2_content2-untracked doesn't get reported at all. Since the file does exist in the working copy, it should reported as unknown. Document that in the test.

test-status-rev: use common script for generating file history Start using the generate-working-copy-states.py script that's shared with test-revert.t, instead of creating the states manually in the test. This adds several states that are currently missing. We will start checking those states later.

test-status-rev: use same names as from generate-working-copy-states To prepare for using generate-working-copy-states.py for generating the files and their content, let's start by renaming the files according to the naming scheme used by that script.

test-revert: move embedded script to its own file Move the gen-revert-cases.py out of test-revert.t into its own file so we can reuse it from other tests (specifically test-status-rev.t).

test-revert: simplify generation of files With the recent change in naming of the generated files, it becomes much easier to generate the files by iterating over all the possible states than over the state transitions.

merge with stable

discovery: indices between sample and yesno must match (issue4438) 3ef893520a85 changed 'sample' from a list to a set. The iteration order is thus undefined and the yesno indices are not stable. To solve this, repeat the listification and comment from elsewhere in the code. Note: the randomness in the discovery protocol can make this problem hard to reproduce.