sadclown: another test failure eluded me

bash_completion: recognize normal command abbreviations In many common cases, this eliminates a call to "hg help" to get a complete command name, thus improving responsiveness.

completion: selectively use debugpathcomplete in bash_completion The current bash_completion code can be very slow in a large working directory. It always uses "hg status" to generate possibly matching files, which checks the status of every file. We often don't care about status when completing, so that cost is very high. As the new debugpathcomplete command does not check the status of files, it offers much better performance for commands that only care about completing names.

completion: add a debugpathcomplete command The bash_completion code uses "hg status" to generate a list of possible completions for commands that operate on files in the working directory. In a large working directory, this can result in a single tab-completion being very slow (several seconds) as a result of checking the status of every file, even when there is no need to check status or no possible matches. The new debugpathcomplete command gains performance in a few simple ways: * Allow completion to operate on just a single directory. When used to complete the right commands, this considerably reduces the number of completions returned, at no loss in functionality. * Never check the status of files. For completions that really must know if a file is modified, it is faster to use status: hg status -nm 'glob:myprefix**' Performance: Here are the commands used by bash_completion to complete, run in the root of the mozilla-central working dir (~77,000 files) and another repo (~165,000 files): All "normal state" files (used by e.g. remove, revert): mozilla other status -nmcd 'glob:**' 1.77 4.10 sec debugpathcomplete -f -n 0.53 1.26 debugpathcomplete -n 0.17 0.41 ("-f" means "complete full paths", rather than the current directory) Tracked files matching "a": mozilla other status -nmcd 'glob:a**' 0.26 0.47 debugpathcomplete -f -n a 0.10 0.24 debugpathcomplete -n a 0.10 0.22 We should be able to further improve completion performance once the critbit work lands. Right now, our performance is limited by the need to iterate over all keys in the dirstate.

tests: add new command to test-debugcomplete

completion: add a debuglabelcomplete command When completing a "label" (a symbolic name for a commit), the bash_completion script currently has to invoke hg three times. For a large repository, the cost of starting up and loading all the necessary context over and over is very high. For instance, in mozilla-central: time (export HGPLAIN=1; hg tags -q; hg bookmarks -q; hg branches) >/dev/null 0.446 sec Compare with the debuglabelcomplete command that this commit adds: time hg debuglabelcomplete >/dev/null 0.148 sec This greatly helps responsiveness.

bash_completion: nuke a duplicated function

run-tests: only sort files when not given as argument os.listdir returns the files in any order. This has to be sorted. But when given as argument, the user should be allowed to set any order. This restores the behaviour before 9848a94e2a.

blackbox: use util.getuser for portability On Windows, our implementation is more robust than Python's version.

blackbox: prevent failed I/O from causing hg to abort Instead, we simply print a warning message if opening the blackbox log file fails, or if writing to it fails.