[PATCH 0 of 6] light-weight copy queue

[Sune Foldager]

On 03-02-2011 09:25, Martin Geisler wrote:
> Gilles Moris<gilles.moris at free.fr>  writes:
>> I tried to the queue and the few tests I made worked well.
>>
>> First initialize with a non-lwcopy repo:
>>    $ hg init lwtest1
>>    $ cd lwtest1
>>    $ hg add big1
>>    $ hg ci -m init
>>    $ ls -s .hg/store/data
>>    11448 big1.d      4 big1.i
>>    $ hg mv big1 big2
>>    $ hg ci -m renamed
>>    $ ls -s .hg/store/data
>>    11448 big1.d      4 big1.i  11448 big2.d      4 big2.i
>>
>> Then take my new lwcopy-aware hg weapon:
>>    $ cd ..
>>    $ hglw clone --pull lwtest1 lwtest2
>>    $ cd lwtest2
>>    $ ls -s .hg/store/data
>>    11448 big1.d      4 big1.i      4 big2.i
>> Hurray, big2 collasped ! Let's take it a little further...
>>    $ hglw mv big2 big3
>>    $ hg ci -m "rename of rename"
>>    $ ls -s .hg/store/data
>>    11448 big1.d      4 big1.i      4 big2.i      4 big3.i
>> Wow! Still impressive!
>>    $ cd ..
>>    $ hglw clone --pull lwtest2 lwtest3
>>    $ cd lwtest3
>>    $ ls -s .hg/store/data
>>    11448 big1.d      4 big1.i      4 big2.i      4 big3.i
>> Worked again.
>
> Excellent! This is super cool and I am especially happy about how
> seemless this works: you just pull with a new version of Mercurial and
> voila! you get a smaller repository. Very smooth!

There are still some dents in the code, but it's looking promising. I'll 
see if I can't smooth things a bit out. I am not completely satisfied 
with the API hacks, though... but it might be the best we can do :-p.

/Sune