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
$ echo "[extensions]" >> $HGRCPATH
$ echo "rebase=" >> $HGRCPATH
initialize repository
$ hg init
$ echo 'a' > a
$ hg ci -A -m "0"
adding a
$ echo 'b' > b
$ hg ci -A -m "1"
adding b
$ hg up 0
0 files updated, 0 files merged, 1 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ echo 'c' > c
$ hg ci -A -m "2"
adding c
created new head
$ echo 'd' > d
$ hg ci -A -m "3"
adding d
$ hg bookmark -r 1 one
$ hg bookmark -r 3 two
$ hg up -q two
bookmark list
$ hg bookmark
one 1:925d80f479bb
* two 3:2ae46b1d99a7
rebase
$ hg rebase -s two -d one
rebasing 3:2ae46b1d99a7 two tip "3"
saved backup bundle to $TESTTMP/.hg/strip-backup/2ae46b1d99a7-e6b057bc-rebase.hg
$ hg log
changeset: 3:42e5ed2cdcf4
bookmark: two
tag: tip
parent: 1:925d80f479bb
user: test
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
summary: 3
changeset: 2:db815d6d32e6
parent: 0:f7b1eb17ad24
user: test
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
summary: 2
changeset: 1:925d80f479bb
bookmark: one
user: test
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
summary: 1
changeset: 0:f7b1eb17ad24
user: test
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
summary: 0
aborted rebase should restore active bookmark.
$ hg up 1
0 files updated, 0 files merged, 1 files removed, 0 files unresolved
(leaving bookmark two)
$ echo 'e' > d
$ hg ci -A -m "4"
adding d
created new head
$ hg bookmark three
$ hg rebase -s three -d two
rebasing 4:dd7c838e8362 three tip "4"
merging d
warning: conflicts while merging d! (edit, then use 'hg resolve --mark')
unresolved conflicts (see 'hg resolve', then 'hg rebase --continue')
[240]
$ hg rebase --abort
rebase aborted
$ hg bookmark
one 1:925d80f479bb
* three 4:dd7c838e8362
two 3:42e5ed2cdcf4
after aborted rebase, restoring a bookmark that has been removed should not fail
$ hg rebase -s three -d two
rebasing 4:dd7c838e8362 three tip "4"
merging d
warning: conflicts while merging d! (edit, then use 'hg resolve --mark')
unresolved conflicts (see 'hg resolve', then 'hg rebase --continue')
[240]
$ hg bookmark -d three
$ hg rebase --abort
rebase aborted
$ hg bookmark
one 1:925d80f479bb
two 3:42e5ed2cdcf4