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phases: large rewrite on retract boundary...
phases: large rewrite on retract boundary The new code is still pure Python, so we still have room to going significantly faster. However its complexity of the complex part is `O(|[min_new_draft, tip]|)` instead of `O(|[min_draft, tip]|` which should help tremendously one repository with old draft (like mercurial-devel or mozilla-try). This is especially useful as the most common "retract boundary" operation happens when we commit/rewrite new drafts or when we push new draft to a non-publishing server. In this case, the smallest new_revs is very close to the tip and there is very few work to do. A few smaller optimisation could be done for these cases and will be introduced in later changesets. We still have iterate over large sets of roots, but this is already a great improvement for a very small amount of work. We gather information on the affected changeset as we go as we can put it to use in the next changesets. This extra data collection might slowdown the `register_new` case a bit, however for register_new, it should not really matters. The set of new nodes is either small, so the impact is negligible, or the set of new nodes is large, and the amount of work to do to had them will dominate the overhead the collecting information in `changed_revs`. As this new code compute the changes on the fly, it unlock other interesting improvement to be done in later changeset.
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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deleted or superseded in a new version of the changeset.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