We currently write a new incremental index file every time. That means
that the stack of index files quickly gets deep, which makes it slow
to read the index. This commit makes it so that we squash the new
index segment into its parent if the parent has fewer commits. That
means we'll limit the number of files to O(log n). Writes time will
also be O(log n) on average.
I've confused myself a few times already thinking that level 0 is the
root, so that's probably more intuitive. It also makes tests simpler
because the initial part of the list is unchanged when a new
transaction commits.
The check for adding an existing commit to the index only checked if
the commit was already in the `MutableIndex`, not if it was already in
the parent `ReadonlyIndex`.
With tons of groundwork done, wee can now finally keep the index up to
date within a transaction! That means that we can start relying on the
index to always be valid, so we can use it e.g. for finding common
ancestors within a transaction. That should help speed up `jj evolve`
immensely on large repos.
We still don't write the updated index to disk when the transaction
closes. That will come later.
I think it's better to let the caller decide if the parents should be
added. One use case for removing a head is when fetching from a Git
remote where a branch has been rewritten. In that case, it's probably
the best user experience to remove the old head. With the current
semantics of `View::remove_head()`, we would need to walk up the graph
to find a commit that's an ancestor and for each commit we remove as
head, its parents get temporarily added as heads. It's much easier for
callers that want to add the parents as heads to do that.
This commits makes it so that running commands outside a repo results
in an error message instead of a panic.
We still don't look for a `.jj/` directory in ancestors of the current
directory.
I'm preparing to publish an early version before someone takes the
name(s) on crates.io. "jj" has been taken by a seemingly useless
project, but "jujube" and "jujube-lib" are still available, so let's
use those.
This removes one level of indirection, which is nice because it was
visible to the callers. The `Index` struct is now empty. The next step
is obviously to delete it (and perhaps rename `IndexFile` to `Index`
or `ReadonlyIndex`).
