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
$ cat >> $HGRCPATH << EOF
> [extensions]
> fastannotate=
> EOF
$ hg init repo
$ cd repo
$ for i in 0 1 2 3 4; do
> echo $i >> a
> echo $i >> b
> hg commit -A -m $i a b
> done
use the "debugbuildannotatecache" command to build annotate cache at rev 0
$ hg debugbuildannotatecache --debug --config fastannotate.mainbranch=0
fastannotate: a: 1 new changesets in the main branch
fastannotate: b: 1 new changesets in the main branch
"debugbuildannotatecache" should work with broken cache (and other files would
be built without being affected). note: linelog being broken is only noticed
when we try to append to it.
$ echo 'CORRUPT!' >> .hg/fastannotate/default/a.m
$ hg debugbuildannotatecache --debug --config fastannotate.mainbranch=1
fastannotate: a: rebuilding broken cache
fastannotate: a: 2 new changesets in the main branch
fastannotate: b: 1 new changesets in the main branch
$ echo 'CANNOT REUSE!' > .hg/fastannotate/default/a.l
$ hg debugbuildannotatecache --debug --config fastannotate.mainbranch=2
fastannotate: a: rebuilding broken cache
fastannotate: a: 3 new changesets in the main branch
fastannotate: b: 1 new changesets in the main branch
$ rm .hg/fastannotate/default/a.m
$ hg debugbuildannotatecache --debug --config fastannotate.mainbranch=3
fastannotate: a: rebuilding broken cache
fastannotate: a: 4 new changesets in the main branch
fastannotate: b: 1 new changesets in the main branch
$ rm .hg/fastannotate/default/a.l
$ hg debugbuildannotatecache --debug --config fastannotate.mainbranch=3
$ hg debugbuildannotatecache --debug --config fastannotate.mainbranch=4
fastannotate: a: rebuilding broken cache
fastannotate: a: 5 new changesets in the main branch
fastannotate: b: 1 new changesets in the main branch
"fastannotate" should deal with file corruption as well
$ rm -rf .hg/fastannotate
$ hg fastannotate --debug -r 0 a
fastannotate: a: 1 new changesets in the main branch
0: 0
$ echo 'CORRUPT!' >> .hg/fastannotate/default/a.m
$ hg fastannotate --debug -r 0 a
fastannotate: a: cache broken and deleted
fastannotate: a: 1 new changesets in the main branch
0: 0
$ echo 'CORRUPT!' > .hg/fastannotate/default/a.l
$ hg fastannotate --debug -r 1 a
fastannotate: a: cache broken and deleted
fastannotate: a: 2 new changesets in the main branch
0: 0
1: 1
$ rm .hg/fastannotate/default/a.l
$ hg fastannotate --debug -r 1 a
fastannotate: a: using fast path (resolved fctx: True)
fastannotate: a: cache broken and deleted
fastannotate: a: 2 new changesets in the main branch
0: 0
1: 1
$ rm .hg/fastannotate/default/a.m
$ hg fastannotate --debug -r 2 a
fastannotate: a: cache broken and deleted
fastannotate: a: 3 new changesets in the main branch
0: 0
1: 1
2: 2