Mercurial slow, impoosible to clone/pull/push

[Matt Mackall]

On Wed, 2015-01-21 at 12:36 +0100, junk2 at skjaerris.com wrote:
> The xml files contains a huge number of duplicate lines, E.g. The xml 
> file consists of info about 5000+ parameters in the system.
> E.g one entry is:
>    <parameter>
>      <name>Par100001</name>
>      <num>100001</num>
>      <type>int</type>
>      <text>This is parameter xxx</text>
>      <reset>yes</reset>
>      <readlevel>2</readlevel>
>      <writelevel>2</writelevel>
>      <clearanceLevel>1</clearanceLevel>
>      <owner>Brian</owner>
>      <wtc3num>99999</wtc3num>
>      <wtc3comment>STC-1_specific</wtc3comment>
>      <value>
>        <min>0</min>
>        <max>0</max>
>        <def>0</def>
>      </value>
>    </parameter>
> 
> And e.g. the tags readlevel, writelevel and clearancelevel, can only be 
> to different values, so I guess for 90% of the 5000+ parameters these 
> lines are identical.
> 
> And we have such an entry for each parameter.

You've probably hit this issue, then:

http://bz.selenic.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4074

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