[PATCH 0 of 5] shrink-revlog: v4: pluggable sort algorithms

Martin Geisler mg at lazybytes.net
Fri Mar 12 04:34:47 CST 2010


Greg Ward <greg-hg at gerg.ca> writes:

> Idea: rename 'reversepostorder' (the well-behaved default) to
> 'parentdelta', since it simulates what we would get if revlog had
> parent deltas now. And rename 'postorderreverse' to 'experimental',
> since that's exactly what it is: sometimes better, sometimes worse,
> and unstable.

Names like 'experimental' are not very future-proff, since there might
be a new and even more expriemental algorithm coming up. So I prefer a
name tied to the algorithm in use.

-- 
Martin Geisler

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