Lightweight copy

[tekHedd]

TK Soh wrote:
> I am guessing a significant portion of renames, especially on the 
> directories, happen as second thought, so there's a good chance that
>  a lot of files will only contain one revision. It'd be nice if Hg
> can somehow create a link info in the new revlog that reference back
> to old revlog instead.

Nice, agreed. Not sure if it would be worth the additional complexity
(additional risk and maintenance) or overhead.

I only seem to rename files when I screw up my initial checkin, which
shouldn't be an issue as nobody is forcing me to push. However, I
suppose you could really bloat your database if you do a lot of
refactoring, or if a peer just doesn't care about getting it right the
first time.

Sounds like a real pain to implement and maintain, though.

tom
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