size of repository with many branches, vs. git

[Matt Mackall]

On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 23:28 +0200, Ollivier Robert wrote:
> According to Ollivier Robert:
> > According to Matt Mackall:
> > > > We've kicked around revlog patches that don't do strictly linear deltas.
> > > > That would help immensely here - probably a factor of 10x compression
> > > > improvement for the manifest. It's long past time we dusted those off.
> 
> Are the patches available somewhere for testing please?  Mail archives
> maybe?

I believe Chris Mason and Benoit posted some work in this area circa
October 2006.

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