[PATCH 1 of 2 censor RFC] revlog: special case expanding full-replacement deltas received by exchange

[Martin von Zweigbergk]

On Tue Feb 10 2015 at 1:40:34 PM Mike Edgar <adgar at google.com> wrote:

> +            # special case deltas which replace entire base; no need to
> decode
> +            # base revision, which is cheaper and neatly avoids censored
> bases.


Is it noticeably cheaper? Would it be most useful on binary content? And
least useful on big files with small changes? I'm asking mostly out of
curiosity; I'm not really worried about the cost.
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