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
# Here we create a simple DAG which has just enough of the required
# topology to test all the bisection status labels:
#
# 13--14
# /
# 0--1--2--3---------9--10--11--12
# \ /
# 4--5--6--7--8
$ hg init
$ echo '0' >a
$ hg add a
$ hg ci -u test -d '0 0' -m '0'
$ echo '1' >a
$ hg ci -u test -d '1 0' -m '1'
branch 2-3
$ echo '2' >b
$ hg add b
$ hg ci -u test -d '2 0' -m '2'
$ echo '3' >b
$ hg ci -u test -d '3 0' -m '3'
branch 4-8
$ hg up -r 1
0 files updated, 0 files merged, 1 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ echo '4' >c
$ hg add c
$ hg ci -u test -d '4 0' -m '4'
created new head
$ echo '5' >c
$ hg ci -u test -d '5 0' -m '5'
$ echo '6' >c
$ hg ci -u test -d '6 0' -m '6'
$ echo '7' >c
$ hg ci -u test -d '7 0' -m '7'
$ echo '8' >c
$ hg ci -u test -d '8 0' -m '8'
merge
$ hg merge -r 3
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
(branch merge, don't forget to commit)
$ hg ci -u test -d '9 0' -m '9=8+3'
$ echo '10' >a
$ hg ci -u test -d '10 0' -m '10'
$ echo '11' >a
$ hg ci -u test -d '11 0' -m '11'
$ echo '12' >a
$ hg ci -u test -d '12 0' -m '12'
unrelated branch
$ hg up -r 3
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 1 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ echo '13' >d
$ hg add d
$ hg ci -u test -d '13 0' -m '13'
created new head
$ echo '14' >d
$ hg ci -u test -d '14 0' -m '14'
mark changesets
$ hg bisect --reset
$ hg bisect --good 4
$ hg bisect --good 6
$ hg bisect --bad 12
Testing changeset 9:2197c557e14c "9=8+3" (6 changesets remaining, ~2 tests)
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 1 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ hg bisect --bad 10
Testing changeset 8:e74a86251f58 "8" (4 changesets remaining, ~2 tests)
0 files updated, 0 files merged, 1 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ hg bisect --skip 7
Testing changeset 8:e74a86251f58 "8" (4 changesets remaining, ~2 tests)
0 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
test template
$ hg log --template '{rev}:{node|short} {bisect}\n'
14:cbf2f3105bbf
13:e07efca37c43
12:98c6b56349c0 bad
11:03f491376e63 bad (implicit)
10:c012b15e2409 bad
9:2197c557e14c untested
8:e74a86251f58 untested
7:a5f87041c899 skipped
6:7d997bedcd8d good
5:2dd1875f1028 good (implicit)
4:2a1daef14cd4 good
3:8417d459b90c ignored
2:e1355ee1f23e ignored
1:ce7c85e06a9f good (implicit)
0:b4e73ffab476 good (implicit)
$ hg log --template '{bisect|shortbisect} {rev}:{node|short}\n'
14:cbf2f3105bbf
13:e07efca37c43
B 12:98c6b56349c0
B 11:03f491376e63
B 10:c012b15e2409
U 9:2197c557e14c
U 8:e74a86251f58
S 7:a5f87041c899
G 6:7d997bedcd8d
G 5:2dd1875f1028
G 4:2a1daef14cd4
I 3:8417d459b90c
I 2:e1355ee1f23e
G 1:ce7c85e06a9f
G 0:b4e73ffab476
test style
$ hg log --style bisect
changeset: 14:cbf2f3105bbf
bisect:
tag: tip
user: test
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:14 1970 +0000
summary: 14
changeset: 13:e07efca37c43
bisect:
parent: 3:8417d459b90c
user: test
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:13 1970 +0000
summary: 13
changeset: 12:98c6b56349c0
bisect: bad
user: test
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:12 1970 +0000
summary: 12
changeset: 11:03f491376e63
bisect: bad (implicit)
user: test
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:11 1970 +0000
summary: 11
changeset: 10:c012b15e2409
bisect: bad
user: test
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:10 1970 +0000
summary: 10
changeset: 9:2197c557e14c
bisect: untested
parent: 8:e74a86251f58
parent: 3:8417d459b90c
user: test
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:09 1970 +0000
summary: 9=8+3
changeset: 8:e74a86251f58
bisect: untested
user: test
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:08 1970 +0000
summary: 8
changeset: 7:a5f87041c899
bisect: skipped
user: test
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:07 1970 +0000
summary: 7
changeset: 6:7d997bedcd8d
bisect: good
user: test
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:06 1970 +0000
summary: 6
changeset: 5:2dd1875f1028
bisect: good (implicit)
user: test
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:05 1970 +0000
summary: 5
changeset: 4:2a1daef14cd4
bisect: good
parent: 1:ce7c85e06a9f
user: test
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:04 1970 +0000
summary: 4
changeset: 3:8417d459b90c
bisect: ignored
user: test
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:03 1970 +0000
summary: 3
changeset: 2:e1355ee1f23e
bisect: ignored
user: test
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:02 1970 +0000
summary: 2
changeset: 1:ce7c85e06a9f
bisect: good (implicit)
user: test
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:01 1970 +0000
summary: 1
changeset: 0:b4e73ffab476
bisect: good (implicit)
user: test
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
summary: 0
$ hg log --quiet --style bisect
14:cbf2f3105bbf
13:e07efca37c43
B 12:98c6b56349c0
B 11:03f491376e63
B 10:c012b15e2409
U 9:2197c557e14c
U 8:e74a86251f58
S 7:a5f87041c899
G 6:7d997bedcd8d
G 5:2dd1875f1028
G 4:2a1daef14cd4
I 3:8417d459b90c
I 2:e1355ee1f23e
G 1:ce7c85e06a9f
G 0:b4e73ffab476
$ hg --config extensions.color= --color=debug log --quiet --style bisect
[log.bisect| ] 14:cbf2f3105bbf
[log.bisect| ] 13:e07efca37c43
[log.bisect bisect.bad|B] 12:98c6b56349c0
[log.bisect bisect.bad|B] 11:03f491376e63
[log.bisect bisect.bad|B] 10:c012b15e2409
[log.bisect bisect.untested|U] 9:2197c557e14c
[log.bisect bisect.untested|U] 8:e74a86251f58
[log.bisect bisect.skipped|S] 7:a5f87041c899
[log.bisect bisect.good|G] 6:7d997bedcd8d
[log.bisect bisect.good|G] 5:2dd1875f1028
[log.bisect bisect.good|G] 4:2a1daef14cd4
[log.bisect bisect.ignored|I] 3:8417d459b90c
[log.bisect bisect.ignored|I] 2:e1355ee1f23e
[log.bisect bisect.good|G] 1:ce7c85e06a9f
[log.bisect bisect.good|G] 0:b4e73ffab476