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httppeer: remove support for connecting to <0.9.1 servers (BC) Previously, HTTP wire protocol clients would attempt a "capabilities" wire protocol command. If that failed, they would fall back to issuing a "between" command. The "capabilities" command was added in Mercurial 0.9.1 (released July 2006). The "between" command has been present for as long as the wire protocol has existed. So if the "between" command failed, it was safe to assume that the remote could not speak any version of the Mercurial wire protocol. The "between" fallback was added in 395a84f78736 in 2011. Before that changeset, Mercurial would *always* issue the "between" command and would issue "capabilities" if capabilities were requested. At that time, many connections would issue "capabilities" eventually, so it was decided to issue "capabilities" by default and fall back to "between" if that failed. This saved a round trip when connecting to modern servers while still preserving compatibility with legacy servers. Fast forward ~7 years. Mercurial servers supporting "capabilities" have been around for over a decade. If modern clients are connecting to <0.9.1 servers, they are getting a bad experience. They may even be getting bad data (an old server is vulnerable to numerous security issues and could have been p0wned, leading to a Mercurial repository serving backdoors or other badness). In addition, the fallback can harm experience for modern servers. If a client experiences an intermittent HTTP request failure (due to bad network, etc) and falls back to a "between" that works, it would assume an empty capability set and would attempt to communicate with the repository using a very ancient wire protocol. Auditing HTTP logs for hg.mozilla.org, I did find a handful of requests for the null range of the "between" command. However, requests can be days apart. And when I do see requests, they come in batches. Those batches seem to correlate to spikes of HTTP 500 or other server/network events. So I think these requests are fallbacks from failed "capabilities" requests and not from old clients. If you need even more evidence to discontinue support, apparently we have no test coverage for communicating with servers not supporting "capabilities." I know this because all tests pass with the "between" fallback removed. Finally, server-side support for <0.9.1 pushing (the "addchangegroup" wire protocol command along with locking-related commands) was dropped from the HTTP client in fda0867cfe03 in 2017 and the SSH client in 9f6e0e7ef828 in 2015. I think this all adds up to enough justification for removing client support for communicating with servers not supporting "capabilities." So this commit removes that fallback. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D2001

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# discovery.py - protocol changeset discovery functions
#
# Copyright 2010 Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
#
# This software may be used and distributed according to the terms of the
# GNU General Public License version 2 or any later version.
from __future__ import absolute_import
import collections
from .i18n import _
from .node import (
nullid,
short,
)
from . import (
error,
)
def findcommonincoming(repo, remote, heads=None, force=False):
"""Return a tuple (common, fetch, heads) used to identify the common
subset of nodes between repo and remote.
"common" is a list of (at least) the heads of the common subset.
"fetch" is a list of roots of the nodes that would be incoming, to be
supplied to changegroupsubset.
"heads" is either the supplied heads, or else the remote's heads.
"""
knownnode = repo.changelog.hasnode
search = []
fetch = set()
seen = set()
seenbranch = set()
base = set()
if not heads:
heads = remote.heads()
if repo.changelog.tip() == nullid:
base.add(nullid)
if heads != [nullid]:
return [nullid], [nullid], list(heads)
return [nullid], [], heads
# assume we're closer to the tip than the root
# and start by examining the heads
repo.ui.status(_("searching for changes\n"))
unknown = []
for h in heads:
if not knownnode(h):
unknown.append(h)
else:
base.add(h)
if not unknown:
return list(base), [], list(heads)
req = set(unknown)
reqcnt = 0
# search through remote branches
# a 'branch' here is a linear segment of history, with four parts:
# head, root, first parent, second parent
# (a branch always has two parents (or none) by definition)
unknown = collections.deque(remote.branches(unknown))
while unknown:
r = []
while unknown:
n = unknown.popleft()
if n[0] in seen:
continue
repo.ui.debug("examining %s:%s\n"
% (short(n[0]), short(n[1])))
if n[0] == nullid: # found the end of the branch
pass
elif n in seenbranch:
repo.ui.debug("branch already found\n")
continue
elif n[1] and knownnode(n[1]): # do we know the base?
repo.ui.debug("found incomplete branch %s:%s\n"
% (short(n[0]), short(n[1])))
search.append(n[0:2]) # schedule branch range for scanning
seenbranch.add(n)
else:
if n[1] not in seen and n[1] not in fetch:
if knownnode(n[2]) and knownnode(n[3]):
repo.ui.debug("found new changeset %s\n" %
short(n[1]))
fetch.add(n[1]) # earliest unknown
for p in n[2:4]:
if knownnode(p):
base.add(p) # latest known
for p in n[2:4]:
if p not in req and not knownnode(p):
r.append(p)
req.add(p)
seen.add(n[0])
if r:
reqcnt += 1
repo.ui.progress(_('searching'), reqcnt, unit=_('queries'))
repo.ui.debug("request %d: %s\n" %
(reqcnt, " ".join(map(short, r))))
for p in xrange(0, len(r), 10):
for b in remote.branches(r[p:p + 10]):
repo.ui.debug("received %s:%s\n" %
(short(b[0]), short(b[1])))
unknown.append(b)
# do binary search on the branches we found
while search:
newsearch = []
reqcnt += 1
repo.ui.progress(_('searching'), reqcnt, unit=_('queries'))
for n, l in zip(search, remote.between(search)):
l.append(n[1])
p = n[0]
f = 1
for i in l:
repo.ui.debug("narrowing %d:%d %s\n" % (f, len(l), short(i)))
if knownnode(i):
if f <= 2:
repo.ui.debug("found new branch changeset %s\n" %
short(p))
fetch.add(p)
base.add(i)
else:
repo.ui.debug("narrowed branch search to %s:%s\n"
% (short(p), short(i)))
newsearch.append((p, i))
break
p, f = i, f * 2
search = newsearch
# sanity check our fetch list
for f in fetch:
if knownnode(f):
raise error.RepoError(_("already have changeset ")
+ short(f[:4]))
base = list(base)
if base == [nullid]:
if force:
repo.ui.warn(_("warning: repository is unrelated\n"))
else:
raise error.Abort(_("repository is unrelated"))
repo.ui.debug("found new changesets starting at " +
" ".join([short(f) for f in fetch]) + "\n")
repo.ui.progress(_('searching'), None)
repo.ui.debug("%d total queries\n" % reqcnt)
return base, list(fetch), heads