perf: add some documentation to perfindex
It seems useful to document how the arguments can affect the benchmark.
--- a/contrib/perf.py Fri Jan 25 14:53:19 2019 -0500
+++ b/contrib/perf.py Mon Jan 28 04:47:40 2019 -0500
@@ -1017,6 +1017,14 @@
(b'', b'rev', b'', b'revision to be looked up (default tip)'),
] + formatteropts)
def perfindex(ui, repo, **opts):
+ """benchmark index creation time followed by a lookup
+
+ The default is to look `tip` up. Depending on the index implementation,
+ the revision looked up can matters. For example, an implementation
+ scanning the index will have a faster lookup time for `--rev tip` than for
+ `--rev 0`.
+
+ It is not currently possible to check for lookup of a missing node."""
import mercurial.revlog
opts = _byteskwargs(opts)
timer, fm = gettimer(ui, opts)
--- a/tests/test-contrib-perf.t Fri Jan 25 14:53:19 2019 -0500
+++ b/tests/test-contrib-perf.t Mon Jan 28 04:47:40 2019 -0500
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@
find statistic about potential parameters for the
'perftracecopies'
perfignore benchmark operation related to computing ignore
- perfindex (no help text available)
+ perfindex benchmark index creation time followed by a lookup
perflinelogedits
(no help text available)
perfloadmarkers