Details on new wire protocol?

Matt Mackall mpm at selenic.com
Thu Jul 2 01:15:43 CDT 2009


On Thu, 2009-07-02 at 07:56 +0200, Peter Arrenbrecht wrote:
> Matt, any details on the improved wire protocol which you announced for 1.4 yet?
> -parren

[Peter's referring to my blog post:
http://www.selenic.com/blog/mercurial/1.3.html

An RSS feed of just the Mercurial bits of my blog can be had at:
http://www.selenic.com/blog/index.rss20]

There are several things in the works that all need protocol
improvements:

- lightweight copies
- parent deltas
- shallow clones
- longer hashes (for SHA1 replacement)
- faster cset discovery ('searching for changes')
- bookmarks

Rather than add the necessary protocol bits needed for this stuff one at
a time, I'm hoping it can be done in one release.

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