Ref T4327. There are a bunch of other probably-related tasks too, some linked there.
We have some rare/unusual bugs in the change parsers, mostly in Subversion, but it's terrifying to touch them because they're complicated and fragile and have no test coverage.
To fix this stuff, I want to make them more testable. In particular, they basically end with this big INSERT right now. Instead, I'm going to make them return objects representing the data to be inserted, then have the common infrastructure do the insert. This gives us two benefits:
- Reduced code duplication on the insert;
- we can stop before the insert and have unit tests examine the objects.
This swaps the Git parser over, but doesn't swap the hg/svn parsers yet. I'll do those separately, the SVN one looks a bit tricky.