A thought for dealing with linkrevs
Pierre-Yves David
pierre-yves.david at ens-lyon.org
Thu Sep 18 14:44:52 CDT 2014
On 09/17/2014 09:08 PM, Matt Mackall wrote:
> So I've been thinking about the linkrev problem a bit again. I've
> occasionally suggested we can deduce the possible positions of the
> missing linkrevs from the shape of the changelog graph as compared to
> the filelog graph. This turned out to be complicated so it never really
> went anywhere.
>
> I'm now tinkering with the idea of treating the linkrev as a simple
> hint: "this is one possibility, and any aliases are numerically after
> it". So if we're interested in following the history of file F from
> changeset C, we can say:
>
> - is F.linkrev an ancestor of C? great, done
> - otherwise, let's look in that vicinity for changesets touching F
>
> Since the usual case for caring about this is log -f or annotate, which
> incrementally walk back through file history, we can imagine a
> "corrector" object that knows where we're following from and can correct
> related linkrevs. We can even imagine this state being automatically
> shared as we traverse contexts, thus making fctx.linkrev() magically do
> the right thing.
>
> I tried hacking this up, and the below code will incrementally correct
> all the linkrevs in the 2639 ancestors of mercurial/commands.py in
> 0.13s, including fixing up a ton of obsolete linkrevs, which seems like
> a pretty good start. There are probably a bunch of ways it could be
> faster/smarter.
This a pretty cool idea. I love how it provide a bounded solution
without too much complexity added. Do you have the timing without the
linkcorrector to get an idea of the slow down ?
--
Pierre-Yves David
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