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tests: optimise creating repositories and loading dumps
Previously, we'd use svnadmin for creating repositories and loading
dumps. That tends to be a bit slow, as it forks a new process and
loads the Subversion libraries into it. Instead, we extend our
existing Subversion wrappers and load the dumps using the API.
This is a noticable speedup. The only downside is that we rely on
Subversion and Subvertpy to correctly close all file descriptors; an
assumption which hasn't always held in the past.
I ran some benchmarks on my relatively slow Mac with $TMPDIR on a
ramdisk, and they showed a significant change:
I compared ten runs of each with Subvertpy:
min: -18.8% (299.1s -> 243.0s)
median: -20.0% (307.1s -> 245.6s)
...and three runs of each with SWIG:
min: -22.8% (368.7s -> 284.7s)
median: -25.7% (384.4s -> 285.5s)
(Since the timing measures wall clock time, the minimum time is likely
to be the most accurate and useful measurement.)
| author | Dan Villiom Podlaski Christiansen <danchr@gmail.com> |
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| date | Tue, 07 Jun 2016 09:15:53 +0200 |
| parents | 3df6ed4e7561 |
| children | b06be5815692 |
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.. -*-restructuredtext-*- ============ hgsubversion ============ hgsubversion is an extension for Mercurial that allows using Mercurial as a Subversion client. At this point, hgsubversion is usable by users reasonably familiar with Mercurial as a VCS. It's not recommended to dive into hgsubversion as an introduction to Mercurial, since hgsubversion "bends the rules" a little and violates some of the typical assumptions of early Mercurial users. Installation ------------ You need to have either have Subversion 1.5 (or later) installed along with either Subvertpy 0.7.4 (or later) or the Subversion SWIG Python bindings. You need Mercurial 2.0 or later. .. _mercurial: http://selenic.com/repo/hg .. _mercurial-stable: http://selenic.com/repo/hg-stable .. _crew: http://hg.intevation.org/mercurial/crew .. _crew-stable: http://hg.intevation.org/mercurial/crew-stable If you are unfamiliar with installing Mercurial extensions, please see the UsingExtensions_ page in the Mercurial wiki. Look at the example for specifying an absolute path near the bottom of the page. You want to give the path to the top level of your clone of this repository. .. _UsingExtensions: http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/UsingExtensions Before using hgsubversion, I *strongly* encourage you to run the automated tests. Just use nose_ if you have it (or ``easy_install nose`` if you want it), or use ``python tests/run.py`` to run the suite with the conventional test runner. Note that because I use nose, there's a lot of stdout spew in the tests right now. The important part is that all the tests pass. .. _nose: http://code.google.com/p/python-nose/ You can check that hgsubversion is installed and properly activated using the following command:: $ hg version --svn Mercurial Distributed SCM (version ...) Copyright (C) 2005-2010 Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> and others This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. hgsubversion: ... Subversion: ... bindings: Subvertpy ... If your bindings are listed as `SWIG`, please consider installing Subvertpy_. .. _Subvertpy: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/subvertpy Further Reading --------------- More information on how to use hgsubversion is available from within Mercurial in the `subversion` help topic. To view it, use:: $ hg help subversion The Restructured Text source for this topic is also available in the file ``hgsubverson/help/subversion.rst``.