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phases: large rework of advance boundary In a similar spirit as the rework of retractboundary, the new algorithm is doing an amount of work in the order of magnitude of the amount of changeset that changes phases. (except to find new roots in impacted higher phases if any may exists). This result in a very significant speedup for repository with many old draft like mozilla try. runtime of perf:unbundle for a bundle constaining a single changeset (C code): before 6.7 phase work: 14.497 seconds before this change: 6.311 seconds (-55%) with this change: 2.240 seconds (-85%) Combined with the other patches that fixes the phases computation in the Rust index, the rust code with a persistent nodemap get back to quite interresting performances with 2.026 seconds for the same operation, about 10% faster than the C code.

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Obsolescence markers make it possible to mark changesets that have been
deleted or superseded in a new version of the changeset.
Unlike the previous way of handling such changes, by stripping the old
changesets from the repository, obsolescence markers can be propagated
between repositories. This allows for a safe and simple way of exchanging
mutable history and altering it after the fact. Changeset phases are
respected, such that only draft and secret changesets can be altered (see
:hg:`help phases` for details).
Obsolescence is tracked using "obsolescence markers", a piece of metadata
tracking which changesets have been made obsolete, potential successors for
a given changeset, the moment the changeset was marked as obsolete, and the
user who performed the rewriting operation. The markers are stored
separately from standard changeset data can be exchanged without any of the
precursor changesets, preventing unnecessary exchange of obsolescence data.
The complete set of obsolescence markers describes a history of changeset
modifications that is orthogonal to the repository history of file
modifications. This changeset history allows for detection and automatic
resolution of edge cases arising from multiple users rewriting the same part
of history concurrently.
Current feature status
======================
This feature is still in development.
Instability
===========
Rewriting changesets might introduce instability.
There are two main kinds of instability: orphaning and diverging.
Orphans are changesets left behind when their ancestors are rewritten.
Divergence has two variants:
* Content-divergence occurs when independent rewrites of the same changesets
lead to different results.
* Phase-divergence occurs when the old (obsolete) version of a changeset
becomes public.
It is possible to prevent local creation of orphans by using the following config::
[experimental]
evolution.createmarkers = true
evolution.exchange = true
You can also enable that option explicitly::
[experimental]
evolution.createmarkers = true
evolution.exchange = true
evolution.allowunstable = true