Mercurial slow, impoosible to clone/pull/push

[Matt Mackall]

On Tue, 2015-01-20 at 15:36 -0500, Augie Fackler wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 5:20 AM,  <junk2 at skjaerris.com> wrote:
> > Hi All
> >
> > I have a mercurial repository, which includes 2 xml files..
> > Par1.xml (size approx 1.5 MB) (600 revisions)
> > Par2.xml (size approx 5 MB) (1200 revisions)
> >
> > It has been like that for some time, but lately I am struggling by making
> > clone/pull/push from the mercurial repository. When I do a clone it's
> > hanging when it reaches these 2 xml files, sometimes it goes though after
> > 3-5 minutes other times it fails.
> 
> 
> Are these xml files remarkable? Do they contain any newlines at all?

Alternately, do they have a huge number of duplicate lines? This can
trigger some worst-case behavior in our delta generation algorithm.

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