existing clone code uses pull to get changes from remote repo. is very
slow, uses lots of memory and cpu.
new clone code has server write file data straight to client, client
writes file data straight to disk. memory and cpu used are very low,
clone is much faster over lan.
new client can still clone with pull, can still clone from older servers.
new server can still serve older clients.
As e.g. test-http-proxy already takes quite some time (about a minute here)
and tests usually should clean up after themselves, the timeout should only be
hit in case of other problems.
test timeout feature is needed for test with python 2.5 beta. if test
does not complete in time (30 seconds is default), it is killed.
some times daemon process used in test can be alive after the test
is killed by user or by timeout. tests now record daemon pids into
$DAEMON_PIDS and run-tests.py kills all living daemons after every test.
final little change is to add newline to end of pid file printed by
"hg serve", else "cat hg.pid >> $DAEMON_FILES" gives garbage.
this is wanted because some tests run python interpreter directly.
must use same python interpreter in tests as in main harness or problems
will happen because of e.g. different python abi if run-tests.py run
with python 2.5 but system python is 2.4.
fix is to see if system python is used and is named python. if no,
put symlink called python at front of shell search path.
now all repositories have capabilities slot, tuple with list of names.
if 'unbundle' capability present, repo supports push where client does
not need to lock server. repository classes that have unbundle capability
also have unbundle method.
implemented for ssh now, will be base for push over http.
unbundle protocol acts this way. server tells client what heads it
has during normal negotiate step. client starts unbundle by repeat
server's heads back to it. if server has new heads, abort immediately.
otherwise, transfer changes to server. once data transferred, server
locks and checks heads again. if heads same, changes can be added.
else someone else added heads, and server aborts.
if client wants to force server to add heads, sends special heads list of
'force'.
