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
Test for changeset 9fe267f77f56ff127cf7e65dc15dd9de71ce8ceb
(merge correctly when all the files in a directory are moved
but then local changes are added in the same directory)
$ hg init a
$ cd a
$ mkdir -p testdir
$ echo a > testdir/a
$ hg add testdir/a
$ hg commit -m a
$ cd ..
$ hg clone a b
updating to branch default
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ cd a
$ echo alpha > testdir/a
$ hg commit -m remote-change
$ cd ..
$ cd b
$ mkdir testdir/subdir
$ hg mv testdir/a testdir/subdir/a
$ hg commit -m move
$ mkdir newdir
$ echo beta > newdir/beta
$ hg add newdir/beta
$ hg commit -m local-addition
$ hg pull ../a
pulling from ../a
searching for changes
adding changesets
adding manifests
adding file changes
added 1 changesets with 1 changes to 1 files (+1 heads)
new changesets cc7000b01af9
(run 'hg heads' to see heads, 'hg merge' to merge)
$ hg up -C 2
0 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
Abuse this test for also testing that merge respects ui.relative-paths
$ hg --cwd testdir merge --config ui.relative-paths=yes
merging subdir/a and a to subdir/a
0 files updated, 1 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
(branch merge, don't forget to commit)
$ hg stat
M testdir/subdir/a
$ hg diff --nodates
diff -r bc21c9773bfa testdir/subdir/a
--- a/testdir/subdir/a
+++ b/testdir/subdir/a
@@ -1,1 +1,1 @@
-a
+alpha
$ cd ..