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Transaction Plan

Improving transactionality of Modern Mercurial

1. Current Situation

The current transaction implementation focus on the ability to rollback on disk data in case of failure. All other aspects of transaction (data visibility, hook scheduling, cache validity, etc.) are handled locally by other logics. The lack of vision on the actual live spawn of the transaction in each of these location makes it difficult to behave correctly.

We plan to expand the responsibility and API of the transaction to handle all these cases properly.

2. List of current issue

(non-exhaustive)

3. Steps

  1. implement API on transaction to handle event related to:
    • - pending: flushing pending-changes for hooks

      - finalize: writing new data to conclude the transaction

      - postclose: perform all actions that need to be done on the transaction is successfully closed.

  2. Allow the transaction to backup, rollback, and generate files outside of .hg/store/. This is necessary to handle, bookmark, dirstate and various caches.
  3. Add pending handling to relevant file (obsstore, bookmark, phases, etc)
  4. provide an upgraded repository format that allow consistent view of all files involved in the repository and atomic update of them (cf sprint note)

TransactionPlan (last edited 2014-11-11 22:03:37 by rcl)