CONTRIBUTING
author Pierre-Yves David <pierre-yves.david@octobus.net>
Sun, 10 Mar 2024 05:10:00 +0100
changeset 51493 82c1a388e86a
parent 30084 a492610a2fc1
permissions -rw-r--r--
branchcache: explicitly track inheritence "state" We move from a binary "dirty" flag to a three value "state": "clean", "inherited", "dirty". The "inherited" means that the branch cache is not only "clean", but it is a duplicate of its parent filter. If a branch cache is "inherited", we can non only skip writing its value on disk, but it is a good idea to delete any stale value on disk, as those will just waste time (and possibly induce bug) in the future. We only do this in the update related to transaction or explicit cache update (e.g `hg debugupdatecache`). Deleting the file when we simply detected a stall cache during a read only operation seems more dangerous. We rename `copy` to `inherit_for` to clarify we associate a stronger semantic to the operation.

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