Convert to parentdelta

Martin Geisler mg at lazybytes.net
Sat Aug 21 07:00:06 CDT 2010


Dan Villiom Podlaski Christiansen <danchr at gmail.com> writes:

> On 21 Aug 2010, at 13:36, Pradeepkumar Gayam wrote:
>
>> That didn't cross my mind. `hg clone source dest --parent-delta` to
>> convert might be a good idea. Any suggestions?
>
> Personally, I'd expect ‘hg clone --config format.parentdelta=1 --pull
> source dest’ to do the trick. In other words, when enabled,
> parentdeltas are automatically generated whenever a non-copying, non-
> linking clone is performed. Wasn't this the recommended way for
> adopting earlier store changes?

I think so and I agree we should do it like this again.

-- 
Martin Geisler

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