Tricks for taming large repo manifests and/or improving large repo clone times?

[Augie Fackler]

> On May 30, 2019, at 04:31, Lawrence Stewart <lstewart at room52.net> wrote:
> Nice! Thanks for the suggestion and data point on the extra space
> savings. Mercurial 5.0 hasn't hit the FreeBSD ports tree yet, but as
> soon as it does I'll look into trying this tweak.
> 
> I'm guessing this feature is backwards compatible, in that pre-5.0
> clients will happily talk to a 5.0 zstd compressed repo, but end up
> without the compression benefits in their local clone?

Yes, over a network. If people are accessing the repo over NFS (which I have to advise against) or some local filesystem, they'd need the recent hg version as well.

> 
> Cheers,
> Lawrence