README.rst
author Pierre-Yves David <pierre-yves.david@octobus.net>
Tue, 09 Apr 2024 02:54:12 +0200
changeset 51577 b5d494f7d28a
parent 46756 c5912e35d06d
permissions -rw-r--r--
push: rework the computation of fallbackheads to be correct The previous computation tried to be smart but ended up being wrong. This was caught by phase movement test while reworking the phase discovery logic to be faster. The previous logic was failing to catch case where the pushed set was not based on a common heads (i.e. when the discovery seemed to have "over discovered" content, outside the pushed set) In the following graph, `e` is a common head and we `hg push -r f`. We need to detect `c` as a fallback heads and we previous failed to do so:: e | d f |/ c | b | a The performance impact of the change seems minimal. On the most impacted repository at hand (mozilla-try), the slowdown seems mostly mixed in the overall noise `hg push` but seems to be in the hundred of milliseconds order of magnitude. When using rust, we seems to be a bit faster, probably because we leverage more accelaratd internals. I added a couple of performance related common for further investigation later on.

Mercurial
=========

Mercurial is a fast, easy to use, distributed revision control tool
for software developers.

Basic install::

 $ make            # see install targets
 $ make install    # do a system-wide install
 $ hg debuginstall # sanity-check setup
 $ hg              # see help

Running without installing::

 $ make local      # build for inplace usage
 $ ./hg --version  # should show the latest version

See https://mercurial-scm.org/ for detailed installation
instructions, platform-specific notes, and Mercurial user information.

Notes for packagers
===================

Mercurial ships a copy of the python-zstandard sources. This is used to
provide support for zstd compression and decompression functionality. The
module is not intended to be replaced by the plain python-zstandard nor
is it intended to use a system zstd library. Patches can result in hard
to diagnose errors and are explicitly discouraged as unsupported
configuration.