[PATCH] Add script to rewrite manifest to workaround lack of parent deltas

Dirkjan Ochtman dirkjan at ochtman.nl
Tue Aug 25 02:02:53 CDT 2009


On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 03:57, Greg Ward<greg-hg at gerg.ca> wrote:
> Sorry.  YAGNI = "You Ain't Gonna Need It" or, in proper English, "You
> Aren't Going to Need It".  As in, "sure, we *could* implement
> shrink-manifest as shrink-revlog so users can shrink any filelog that
> is affected by lack of parent deltas, but you ain't gonna need it".
> Comes from the XP (extreme programming) community.

I actually used it on one or two filelogs in the converted Python
repo, and would prefer it if that use case wasn't shut out (although I
agree rewriting manifests is easily the biggest win).

Cheers,

Dirkjan



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