rebase: use matcher to optimize manifestmerge The old merge code would call manifestmerge and calculate the complete diff between the source to the destination. In many cases, like rebase, the vast majority of differences between the source and destination are irrelevant because they are differences between the destination and the common ancestor only, and therefore don't affect the merge. Since most actions are 'keep', all the effort to compute them is wasted. Instead, let's compute the difference between the source and the common ancestor and only perform the diff of those files against the merge destination. When using treemanifest, this lets us avoid loading almost the entire tree when rebasing from a very old ancestor. This speeds up rebase of an old stack of 27 commits by 20x. In mozilla-central, without treemanifest, when rebasing a commit from default~100000 to default, this speeds up the manifestmerge step from 2.6s to 1.2s. However, the additional diff adds an overhead to all manifestmerge calls, especially for flat manifests. When rebasing a commit from default~1 to default it appears to add 100ms in mozilla-central. While we could put this optimization behind a flag, I think the fact that it makes merge O(number of changes being applied) instead of O(number of changes between X and Y) justifies it.

#!/bin/sh
#
# This is an example of using HGEDITOR to create of diff to review the
# changes while committing.

# If you want to pass your favourite editor some other parameters
# only for Mercurial, modify this:
case "${EDITOR}" in
    "")
        EDITOR="vi"
        ;;
    emacs)
        EDITOR="$EDITOR -nw"
        ;;
    gvim|vim)
        EDITOR="$EDITOR -f -o"
        ;;
esac


HGTMP=""
cleanup_exit() {
    rm -rf "$HGTMP"
}

# Remove temporary files even if we get interrupted
trap "cleanup_exit" 0 # normal exit
trap "exit 255" HUP INT QUIT ABRT TERM

HGTMP=$(mktemp -d ${TMPDIR-/tmp}/hgeditor.XXXXXX)
[ x$HGTMP != x -a -d $HGTMP ] || {
  echo "Could not create temporary directory! Exiting." 1>&2
  exit 1
}

(
    grep '^HG: changed' "$1" | cut -b 13- | while read changed; do
        "$HG" diff "$changed" >> "$HGTMP/diff"
    done
)

cat "$1" > "$HGTMP/msg"

MD5=$(which md5sum 2>/dev/null) || \
    MD5=$(which md5 2>/dev/null)
[ -x "${MD5}" ] && CHECKSUM=`${MD5} "$HGTMP/msg"`
if [ -s "$HGTMP/diff" ]; then
    $EDITOR "$HGTMP/msg" "$HGTMP/diff" || exit $?
else
    $EDITOR "$HGTMP/msg" || exit $?
fi
[ -x "${MD5}" ] && (echo "$CHECKSUM" | ${MD5} -c >/dev/null 2>&1 && exit 13)

mv "$HGTMP/msg" "$1"

exit $?