Few changes, enormous push?

[Haszlakiewicz, Eric]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: mercurial-bounces at selenic.com [mailto:mercurial-bounces at selenic.com]
>On Behalf Of Benoit Boissinot
>
>On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 4:29 AM, Theron Luhn <theron at madebypanthr.com>
>wrote:
>> Through use of --debug, I was able to determine that the push was
>uploading
>> 90megs of bundle files.  I'm not exactly sure what bundle files are, but
>90
>> megabytes seems like an excessive amount, especially for just moving
>around
>> some files.
>
>The currently rename handling stores full copies of renamed files in the
>repo.
>There is a plan to fix it, a student worked on it last year, and more
>recently Sune did some work during the sprint.

Any idea when this might become available?  This is causing issues for me too, although in my case it's just a handful of large files whose names keep changing.
When the fix is in place, will a changeset that moves file around have the same ID as before?  i.e., if I do:
  hg convert oldrepo newrepo
will newrepo have the exact same changeset ids as oldrepo, but be smaller?

eric