Convert to parentdelta

[Matt Mackall]

On Sat, 2010-08-21 at 16:10 +0200, Dan Villiom Podlaski Christiansen
wrote:
> On 21 Aug 2010, at 14:09, Pradeepkumar Gayam wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 5:14 PM, Dan Villiom Podlaski Christiansen <
> > danchr at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On 21 Aug 2010, at 13:36, Pradeepkumar Gayam wrote:
> >>
> >>> That didn't cross my mind. `hg clone source dest --parent-delta` to
> >>> convert might be a good idea. Any suggestions?
> >>
> >> Personally, I'd expect ‘hg clone --config format.parentdelta=1 --pull
> >> source dest’
> >
> > This command doesn't completely convert repo. It partially converts.  
> > If you
> > try both the methods you can see the difference.
> 
> My point was that it ought to. IMHO you should detect this situation  
> and then do whatever magic it is your extension currently does :)

There's still a lot of work to do before this can happen. The current
parentdelta code is basically a proof of concept that compression
improves. We still need to rewrite the wire protocol bits that push
changesets over the wire to support this.

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