branchcache: skip entries that are topological heads in the on disk file
In the majority of cases, topological heads are also branch heads. We have
efficient way to get the topological heads and efficient way to retrieve
their branch information. So there is little value in putting them in the branch
cache file explicitly. On the contrary, writing them explicitly tend to create
very large cache file that are inefficient to read and update.
So the branch cache v3 format is no longer including them. This changeset focus
on the format aspect and have no focus on the performance aspect. We will cover
that later.
$ hg init repo
$ cd repo
$ echo line 1 > foo
$ hg ci -qAm 'add foo'
copy foo to bar and change both files
$ hg cp foo bar
$ echo line 2-1 >> foo
$ echo line 2-2 >> bar
$ hg ci -m 'cp foo bar; change both'
in another branch, change foo in a way that doesn't conflict with
the other changes
$ hg up -qC 0
$ echo line 0 > foo
$ hg cat foo >> foo
$ hg ci -m 'change foo'
created new head
we get conflicts that shouldn't be there
$ hg merge -P
changeset: 1:484bf6903104
user: test
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
summary: cp foo bar; change both
$ hg merge --debug
unmatched files in other:
bar
all copies found (* = to merge, ! = divergent, % = renamed and deleted):
on remote side:
src: 'foo' -> dst: 'bar' *
checking for directory renames
resolving manifests
branchmerge: True, force: False, partial: False
ancestor: e6dc8efe11cc, local: 6a0df1dad128+, remote: 484bf6903104
starting 4 threads for background file closing (?)
preserving foo for resolve of bar
preserving foo for resolve of foo
bar: remote copied from foo -> m
picked tool ':merge' for bar (binary False symlink False changedelete False)
merging foo and bar to bar
my bar@6a0df1dad128+ other bar@484bf6903104 ancestor foo@e6dc8efe11cc
premerge successful
foo: versions differ -> m
picked tool ':merge' for foo (binary False symlink False changedelete False)
merging foo
my foo@6a0df1dad128+ other foo@484bf6903104 ancestor foo@e6dc8efe11cc
premerge successful
0 files updated, 2 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
(branch merge, don't forget to commit)
contents of foo
$ cat foo
line 0
line 1
line 2-1
contents of bar
$ cat bar
line 0
line 1
line 2-2
$ cd ..