Fix cold cache diff performance cold cache diff performance has regressed in two ways. localrepo.changes has optimizations for diffing against the working dir parent that expect node1 to be None. commands.revpair() usage means that commands.dodiff() never sends node1 == None. This is fixed in localrepo.changes by checking against the dirstate parents. In the non-dirstate parents case, localrepo.changes does a loop comparing files without first sorting the file names, leading to random access across the disk.

#!/bin/sh -e

umask 027
mkdir test1
cd test1

hg init
touch a b
hg add a b
hg ci -m "added a b" -d "1000000 0"

cd ..
mkdir test2
cd test2

hg init
hg pull ../test1
hg co
chmod +x a
hg ci -m "chmod +x a" -d "1000000 0"

cd ../test1
echo 123 >>a
hg ci -m "a updated" -d "1000000 0"

hg pull ../test2
hg heads
hg history

hg -v merge

ls -l ../test[12]/a > foo
cut -b 1-10 < foo