generaldelta on hg.python.org

[Matt Mackall]

On Tue, 2011-07-05 at 19:29 +0200, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> On Tue, 05 Jul 2011 12:21:24 -0500
> Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2011-07-05 at 15:15 +0200, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > So, for the record, I've enabled generaldelta on the
> > > http://hg.python.org/cpython repository (*). This allows us to bring
> > > repo size down from 350 to 190 MB.
> > > Obviously if there are any problems stemming from this we will switch
> > > back to a non-generaldelta setup.
> > 
> > FYI, push/pull performance will be somewhat worse when communicating
> > with clients not using generaldelta. It may be a couple releases before
> > we set this as the default for new repos.
> 
> Is it just CPU load on the server? I think we can live with that.

I think so.

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