Details on new wire protocol?

Dan Villiom Podlaski Christiansen danchr at gmail.com
Thu Jul 2 04:56:36 CDT 2009


On 02/07/2009, at 08.15, Matt Mackall wrote:

> 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.

Just a thought: Considering that the new protocol is likely to be  
incompatible with previous versions, wouldn't it make sense to name  
the release 2.0 rather than 1.4?

--

Dan Villiom Podlaski Christiansen
danchr at gmail.com

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