hg-git converted repo is massive

[Sean Farley]

On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 2:23 PM, Harvey Chapman <hchapman-hg at 3gfp.com> wrote:
> On Jan 27, 2013, at 8:56 PM, Sean Farley <sean.michael.farley at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Really? I have yet to see a hg repo that is less than 3x the size of
>> the same repo in git. I can usually get the size down to around 2x if
>> I use format.generaldelta=True. Perhaps, hg-git should enable this by
>> default? Maybe also run the hg-shrink extension by default?
>
> Is there any downside to using hg-git with generaldelta?

Not that I've seen, but Augie should be able to answer that better that I can.

> I couldn't find hg-shrink via google. Is that a reference to the shrink-revlog.py script which I think is the same as "hg convert --branchsort"?

Yes, that's what I meant but I've not observed it perform any better
than generaldelta in my tests.