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performance: speedup computation of obsolete revisions...
performance: speedup computation of obsolete revisions In their current state, revset calls can be very costly as we test predicates on the entire repository. As obsolete computation is used by the "hidden" filter, it needs to be very fast. This changet drops the revset call in favor of direct testing of the phase of a changeset. Performance test on my Mercurial checkout - 19857 total changesets, - 1584 obsolete changesets, - 13310 obsolescence markers. Before: ! obsolete ! wall 0.047041 After: ! obsolete ! wall 0.004590 Performance test on a Mozilla central checkout: - 117293 total changesets, - 1 obsolete changeset, - 1 obsolescence marker. Before: ! obsolete ! wall 0.001539 After: ! obsolete ! wall 0.000017

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Mercurial's default format for showing changes between two versions of
a file is compatible with the unified format of GNU diff, which can be
used by GNU patch and many other standard tools.
While this standard format is often enough, it does not encode the
following information:
- executable status and other permission bits
- copy or rename information
- changes in binary files
- creation or deletion of empty files
Mercurial also supports the extended diff format from the git VCS
which addresses these limitations. The git diff format is not produced
by default because a few widespread tools still do not understand this
format.
This means that when generating diffs from a Mercurial repository
(e.g. with :hg:`export`), you should be careful about things like file
copies and renames or other things mentioned above, because when
applying a standard diff to a different repository, this extra
information is lost. Mercurial's internal operations (like push and
pull) are not affected by this, because they use an internal binary
format for communicating changes.
To make Mercurial produce the git extended diff format, use the --git
option available for many commands, or set 'git = True' in the [diff]
section of your configuration file. You do not need to set this option
when importing diffs in this format or using them in the mq extension.