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.
During a merge, each file has a current commitnode+filenode, an other
commitnode+filenode, and an ancestor commitnode+filenode. The ancestor
commitnode is not stored though, and we rely on the ability for the filectx() to
look up the commitnode by using the filenode's linkrev. In alternative backends
(like remotefilelog), linkrevs may have restriction that prevent arbitrary
linkrev look up given a filenode.
This patch accounts for that by storing the ancestor commitnode in
the merge state so that it is available later at resolve time.
This results in some test changes because the ancestor commitnode we're using at
resolve time changes slightly. Before, we used the linkrev commit, which is the
earliest commit that introduced that particular filenode (which may not be the
latest common ancestor of the commits being merged). Now we use the latest
common ancestor of the merged commits as the commitnode. This is fine though,
because that commit contains the same filenode as the linkrev'd commit.
We perform all that we can non-interactively before prompting the user for input
via their merge tool. This allows for a maximally consistent state when the user
is first prompted.
The test output changes indicate the actual behavior change happening.
When the progress extension is not enabled, each call to 'ui.progress' used to
issue a debug message. This results is a very verbose output and often redundant
in tests. Dropping it makes tests less volatile to factor they do not meant to
test.
We had to alter the sed trick in 'test-rename-merge2.t'. Sed is used to drop all
output from a certain point and hidding the progress output remove its anchor.
So we anchor on something else.
Most merge action messages don't describe the action itself, they
describe the reason the action was taken. The only exeption is the 'k'
action, for which the message is just "keep" and instead there is a
code comment folling it that says "remote unchanged". Let's move that
comment into the merge action message.
Preparing for action list split-up, making sure the final change don't have any
test changes.
The patch moves debug statements around without really changing anything.
Arguably, it temporarily makes the code worse. The only justification is that
it makes it easier to review the test changes ... and in the end the big change
will not change test output at all.
The changes to test output are due to changes in the ordering of debug output.
That is mainly because we now do the debug logging for files when we actually
process them. Files are also processed in a slightly different but still
correct order. It is now primarily ordered by action type, secondarily by
filename.
The patch introduces some redundancy. Some of it will be removed again, some of
it will in the end help code readability and efficiency. It is possible that we
later on could introduce a "process this action list and do some logging and
progress reporting and apply this function".
The "preserving X for resolve" debug statements will only have single space
indentation. It will no longer have a leading single space indented "f: msg ->
m" message. Having this message double indented would thus no longer make
sense.
The bid actions will temporarily be sorted using a custom sort key that happens
to match the sort order the simplified code will have in the end.
Such a 'keep' action will later be the preferred (non)action when there
is multiple ancestors. It is thus very convenient to have it explicitly.
The extra actions will only be emitted in the case where the local file has
changed since the ancestor but the other hasn't. That is the symmetrical
operation to a 'get' action.
This will create more action tuples that not really serve a purpose. The number
of actions will however have the number of changed files as upper bound and it
should thus not increase the memory/cpu use significantly.
"merge.applyupdates()" sorts "actions" in removal first order, and
"workeractions" derived from it should be also sorted.
If each actions in "workeractions" are executed in serial, this
sorting ensures that merging/updating process is collision free,
because updating the file in target context is always executed after
removing the existing file which causes case-folding collision against
the former.
In the other hand, if each actions are executed in parallel, updating
on a worker process may be executed before removing on another worker
process, because "worker.partition()" partitions list of actions
regardless of type of each actions.
This patch divides "workeractions" into removing and updating, and
executes the former first.
This patch still scans "actions"/"workeractions" some times for ease
of patch review, even though large list may cost much in this way.
(total cost should be as same as before)
This also changes some tests, because dividing "workeractions" affects
progress indication.
Show messages at a point where the actions have been sorted, thus preparing for
backout of 14f4258e3526.
This makes manifestmerge more of a silent operation, just like 'copies' is.
Indent 'preserving' messages to make them subordinate to the action logging so
they fit in the new context. (The 'preserving' messages are quite redundant and
could also be removed completely.)
The -> in debug messages is currently overloaded to mean both source to dest
and dest to source. To fix this, we add explicit labels and make the arrow
direction consistent.
