bisect: avoid copying ancestor list for non-merge commits
During a bisection, hg needs to compute a list of all ancestors for every
candidate commit. This is accomplished via a bottom-up traversal of the set of
candidates, during which each revision's ancestor list is populated using the
ancestor list of its parent(s). Previously, this involved copying the entire
list, which could be very long in if the bisection range was large.
To help improve this, we can observe that each candidate commit is visited
exactly once, at which point its ancestor list is copied into its children's
lists and then dropped. In the case of non-merge commits, a commit's ancestor
list consists exactly of its parent's list plus itself. This means that we can
trivially reuse the parent's existing list for one of its non-merge children,
which avoids copying entirely if that commit is the parent's only child. This
makes bisections over linear ranges of commits much faster.
During some informal testing in the large publicly-available `mozilla-central`
repository, this noticeably sped up bisections over large ranges of history:
Setup:
$ cd mozilla-central
$ hg bisect --reset
$ hg bisect --good 0
$ hg log -r tip -T '{rev}\n'
628417
Test:
$ time hg bisect --bad tip --noupdate
Before:
real 3m35.927s
user 3m35.553s
sys 0m0.319s
After:
real 1m41.142s
user 1m40.810s
sys 0m0.285s
Setup:
$ cat > eval.py <<EOF
> import filecmp
> from mercurial import commands, context, pycompat, registrar
> cmdtable = {}
> command = registrar.command(cmdtable)
> @command(b'eval', [], b'hg eval CMD')
> def eval_(ui, repo, *cmds, **opts):
> cmd = b" ".join(cmds)
> res = pycompat.bytestr(eval(cmd, globals(), locals()))
> ui.warn(b"%s" % res)
> EOF
$ echo "[extensions]" >> $HGRCPATH
$ echo "eval=`pwd`/eval.py" >> $HGRCPATH
Arbitraryfilectx.cmp does not follow symlinks:
$ mkdir case1
$ cd case1
$ hg init
#if symlink
$ printf "A" > real_A
$ printf "foo" > A
$ printf "foo" > B
$ ln -s A sym_A
$ hg add .
adding A
adding B
adding real_A
adding sym_A
$ hg commit -m "base"
#else
$ hg import -q --bypass - <<EOF
> # HG changeset patch
> # User test
> # Date 0 0
> base
>
> diff --git a/A b/A
> new file mode 100644
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/A
> @@ -0,0 +1,1 @@
> +foo
> \ No newline at end of file
> diff --git a/B b/B
> new file mode 100644
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/B
> @@ -0,0 +1,1 @@
> +foo
> \ No newline at end of file
> diff --git a/real_A b/real_A
> new file mode 100644
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/real_A
> @@ -0,0 +1,1 @@
> +A
> \ No newline at end of file
> diff --git a/sym_A b/sym_A
> new file mode 120000
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/sym_A
> @@ -0,0 +1,1 @@
> +A
> \ No newline at end of file
> EOF
$ hg up -q
#endif
These files are different and should return True (different):
(Note that filecmp.cmp's return semantics are inverted from ours, so we invert
for simplicity):
$ hg eval "context.arbitraryfilectx(b'A', repo).cmp(repo[None][b'real_A'])"
True (no-eol)
$ hg eval "not filecmp.cmp(b'A', b'real_A')"
True (no-eol)
These files are identical and should return False (same):
$ hg eval "context.arbitraryfilectx(b'A', repo).cmp(repo[None][b'A'])"
False (no-eol)
$ hg eval "context.arbitraryfilectx(b'A', repo).cmp(repo[None][b'B'])"
False (no-eol)
$ hg eval "not filecmp.cmp(b'A', b'B')"
False (no-eol)
This comparison should also return False, since A and sym_A are substantially
the same in the eyes of ``filectx.cmp``, which looks at data only.
$ hg eval "context.arbitraryfilectx(b'real_A', repo).cmp(repo[None][b'sym_A'])"
False (no-eol)
A naive use of filecmp on those two would wrongly return True, since it follows
the symlink to "A", which has different contents.
#if symlink
$ hg eval "not filecmp.cmp(b'real_A', b'sym_A')"
True (no-eol)
#else
$ hg eval "not filecmp.cmp(b'real_A', b'sym_A')"
False (no-eol)
#endif