Speedup revlog.ancestors for the linear case revlog.ancestors can be expensive on big repos. This cuts down the overall time for hg update by ~19% by short cutting revlog.ancestors when one of the revisions is reachable from another.

#!/bin/sh

mkdir a
cd a
hg init
echo foo > b
hg add b
hg ci -m "b" -d "1000000 0"

chmod -w .hg

cd ..

hg clone a b

chmod +w a/.hg # let test clean up

cd b
hg verify