[PATCH 0 of 1 ] Wrong distance calculation in revlog causes huge manifests

[Matt Mackall]

On Thu, 2012-07-12 at 08:04 +0000, Kastner Masilko, Friedrich wrote:
> With this limitation in mind, I guess it would make sense to convert a
> repository stored in generaldelta format with the date-sort option, so
> the chance of a far away parent is minimized. In the standard format,
> this was discouraged, but here it might yield better results. Maybe a
> kind of "shuffle" option could maximize the results, i.e. reordering
> commits by means of a round-robin kind of "scheduling" of parallel
> branches.

Perhaps. More research is needed. Did you investigate the tunable
described here?

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