merge: use file size stored in revlog index

Add size method to filelog to handle nodes with renames

mercurial/filelog.py

@@ -65,6 +65,16 b' class filelog(revlog):'
             return (m["copy"], bin(m["copyrev"]))
         return False
 
+    def size(self, rev):
+        """return the size of a given revision"""
+
+        # for revisions with renames, we have to go the slow way
+        node = self.node(rev)
+        if self.renamed(node):
+            return len(self.read(node))
+
+        return revlog.size(self, rev)
+
     def cmp(self, node, text):
         """compare text with a given file revision"""
 

mercurial/merge.py

@@ -282,7 +282,8 b' def update(repo, node, branchmerge=False'
                 # of that file some time in the past. Thus our
                 # merge will appear as a normal local file
                 # modification.
-                f_len = len(repo.file(f).read(other))
+                fl = repo.file(f)
+                f_len = fl.size(fl.rev(other))
                 repo.dirstate.update([f], 'n', st_size=f_len, st_mtime=-1)
 
     remove.sort()