Call for testing: generaldelta

[Augie Fackler]

On Jul 27, 2011, at 3:22 PM, Matt Mackall wrote:

> On Wed, 2011-07-27 at 14:58 -0700, Augie Fackler wrote:
>> On http://hg.adium.im/adium:
>> 
>> augie% du -sh adium/.hg/store
>> du 475M adium/.hg/store
>> augie% du -sh adium-gdelta/.hg/store
>> 478M    adium-gdelta/.hg/store
>> augie% ls -l adium/.hg/store/00manifest.*
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 augie augie 2793286 2011-07-27 15:24 adium/.hg/store/00manifest.d
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 augie augie  261184 2011-07-27 15:24 adium/.hg/store/00manifest.i
>> [erebor:~] augie% ls -l adium-gdelta/.hg/store/00manifest.*
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 augie augie 2152634 2011-07-27 16:41 adium-gdelta/.hg/store/00manifest.d
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 augie augie  261184 2011-07-27 16:41 adium-gdelta/.hg/store/00manifest.i
>> 
>> So curiously, the manifest shrank, but the overall repo size grew. If it's considered interesting, I'll write a python script to walk the store and find file(s) that changed size.
> 
> I am curious, yes.
> 
> Does a gd clone of a gd clone fix the situation by reordering it?

Grows again:
[erebor:~] augie% du -sh adium-gdelta/.hg/store
478M    adium-gdelta/.hg/store
[erebor:~] augie% du -sh adium-gdelta-gdelta/.hg/store
479M    adium-gdelta-gdelta/.hg/store

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