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Mercurial Rust Code

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This directory contains various Rust code for the Mercurial project.

Rust is not required to use (or build) Mercurial, but using it

improves performance in some areas.

There are currently three independent rust projects:

- chg. An implementation of chg, in rust instead of C.

- hgcli. A experiment for starting hg in rust rather than in python,

  by linking with the python runtime. Probably meant to be replaced by

  PyOxidizer at some point.

- hg-core (and hg-cpython): implementation of some

  functionality of mercurial in rust, e.g. ancestry computations in

  revision graphs, status or pull discovery. The top-level ``Cargo.toml`` file

  defines a workspace containing these crates.

Using Rust code

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Local use (you need to clean previous build artifacts if you have

built without rust previously)::

  $ make PURE=--rust local # to use ./hg

  $ ./tests/run-tests.py --rust # to run all tests

  $ ./hg debuginstall | grep -i rust # to validate rust is in use

  checking Rust extensions (installed)

  checking module policy (rust+c-allow)

  checking "re2" regexp engine Rust bindings (installed)

If the environment variable ``HGWITHRUSTEXT=cpython`` is set, the Rust

extension will be used by default unless ``--no-rust``.

One day we may use this environment variable to switch to new experimental

binding crates like a hypothetical ``HGWITHRUSTEXT=hpy``.

Developing Rust

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The current version of Rust in use is ``1.34.2``, because it's what Debian

stable has. You can use ``rustup override set 1.34.2`` at the root of the repo

to make it easier on you.

Go to the ``hg-cpython`` folder::

  $ cd rust/hg-cpython

Or, only the ``hg-core`` folder. Be careful not to break compatibility::

  $ cd rust/hg-core

Simply run::

   $ cargo build --release

It is possible to build without ``--release``, but it is not

recommended if performance is of any interest: there can be an order

of magnitude of degradation when removing ``--release``.

For faster builds, you may want to skip code generation::

  $ cargo check

For even faster typing::

  $ cargo c

You can run only the rust-specific tests (as opposed to tests of

mercurial as a whole) with::

  $ cargo test --all

Formatting the code

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We use ``rustfmt`` to keep the code formatted at all times. For now, we are

using the nightly version because it has been stable enough and provides

comment folding.

To format the entire Rust workspace::

  $ cargo +nightly fmt

This requires you to have the nightly toolchain installed.