hg-git converted repo is massive

Matt Mackall mpm at selenic.com
Wed Jan 30 16:36:51 UTC 2013


On Wed, 2013-01-30 at 10:34 -0600, Sean Farley wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 10:29 AM, Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2013-01-30 at 10:25 -0600, Sean Farley wrote:
> >> On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 9:41 AM, Augie Fackler <lists at durin42.com> wrote:
> >> > On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 3:23 PM, Harvey Chapman <hchapman-hg at 3gfp.com> wrote:
> >> >> Is there any downside to using hg-git with generaldelta?
> >> >
> >> > Not AFAIK.
> >>
> >> So, could hg-git enable it by default (if possible)?
> >
> > It's not ready for prime time.
> >
> > Nor is sufficiently good yet to be worth the trouble. Some repos are
> > known to get larger!
> 
> Ah! I did not know that. I was somehow under the impression that it
> wasn't ready due to the missing wire protocol.

That's a problem too. It will be significantly slower over the wire.

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