Not a holy war - just some salient facts

[Sune Foldager]

On 14-04-2010 18:10, Tom Widmer wrote:
> Masklinn wrote:
>> On 12 Apr 2010, at 14:07 , Tom Widmer wrote:
>>> Bzr has a few features that hg lacks:
>>> - shallow clones (aka stacked branches)
>> True.
>>> - efficient renames/copies (and full rename tracking)
>> hg has efficient renames/copies, and the directory rename tracking
>> hasn't impressed me much so far.
>
> Because of the filelog format, if you rename every file in a HG repo,
> you double the repo's size. It certainly isn't space efficient (which
> has knock-on effects on wire efficiency). I think someone is trying to
> fix it for GSOC this year (and someone failed last year I recall).

Well, failed is not entirely precise; working code is pretty much done, 
except for the wire-parts which need to be finished. I hope to be able 
to that in the not too distant future.

/Sune