[RFC] Designing a store format that uses fewer files

Gregory Szorc gregory.szorc at gmail.com
Sat Nov 28 15:47:47 CST 2015


On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 5:15 AM, Chingis Dugarzhapov <chingis.dug at gmail.com>
wrote:

> >> And new store requirements mean you can break the world because there
> are no backwards compatibility concerns
>
> Will this be similar to .dotencode introduced in 1.9? Similar means
> operations (e.g. commit) on repo with "new" mercurial will make it
> unusuable with "old" mercurial?
>

That is what a new store requirement means, yes.

Even if this proposal comes to life, it may not be the default (we may do
something like only use this mode for very large repositories for example).
Time will tell.
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