[PATCH V2] generaldelta: initialize basecache properly

Tim Delaney timothy.c.delaney at gmail.com
Sat Sep 21 14:28:55 CDT 2013


On 22 September 2013 05:08, Sean Farley <sean.michael.farley at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> timothy.c.delaney at gmail.com writes:
>
> > Is there a reason generaldelta is still undocumented and/or not yet the
> > default format? It's been in since Mercurial 1.9 and I only found out
> about
> > it thanks to this patch.
>
> Mostly, because the bundle code needed to be updated to handle
> exchanging generaldelta (and other things, like bookmarked heads) over
> the wire. I believe this finally made some decent progress at the last
> sprint but still isn't done yet.
>

So given that we don't use bookmarks, is there any reason I shouldn't
convert my central repo to use generaldelta to gain the existing benefits?
Is it just that some things are less optimised than they could be, or is
there the potential for data loss/corruption?

Tim Delaney
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