[PATCH] Issue #839: prevent any file paths under .hg/store/data/ from getting too long

[Matt Mackall]

On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 22:56 +0200, Peter Arrenbrecht wrote:
> I liked mpm's idea of using the first few letters of the first few
> dirs in the new path, also as dirs. An attempt to group related files
> again, and an attempt to avoid issues with tons of files in a single
> dir, if I understood his intentions. Of course, we might never see
> tons of files encoded this way, so this might be moot.

Unfortunately, path length tends to be proportional to log(# of files)
so the larger the repo is, the more of these files it's going to have
(and the more important it will be to avoid seeking).

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