Mercurial's sparse checkout support allows "profile" files defining
what's in sparse checkouts to be defined in-tree. This convenient
feature means you simply need to point a client at a path inside the
repository and it dynamically resolves what files to include in the
checkout. As you update revisions, the "profile" pulls in updates
to the underlying file.
We introduce 2 sparse profiles: 1 for mach and another for taskgraph.
The goal of the "mach" profile is to provide enough files to run
`mach`. If you activate this profile and run `mach`, it runs without
error. But there are practically no commands available. So it isn't
terribly useful.
The "taskgraph" profile allows us to run `mach taskgraph`. This
profile demonstrates a sparse profile feature: including other
profiles. The "taskgraph" profile is thus a union of "mach" and
its own entries.
There is definitely some fat in these profiles. I didn't feel like
chasing the long tail and getting overly granular with the profiles.
If we want to optimize later, we can do that.
For reference:
Full checkout: ~234,000 files
mach: ~2,000 files
taskgraph: ~3,600 files
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Gregory Szorc