Few changes, enormous push?

[Benoit Boissinot]

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 4:29 AM, Theron Luhn <theron at madebypanthr.com> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I have a mercurial repository with quite a few files in it.  They vary in
> size, but most of them are very small.
>
> Recently, in effort to do a bit of housekeeping, I moved a directory
> containing 1000+ small files.  After committing the changes, I tried to
> push, which ended up taking a very long time.  (Actually, I still haven't
> finished uploading)
>
> Through use of --debug, I was able to determine that the push was uploading
> 90megs of bundle files.  I'm not exactly sure what bundle files are, but 90
> megabytes seems like an excessive amount, especially for just moving around
> some files.
>
> Any reason why this is happening?  Any way to reduce this enormous amount of
> data?

The currently rename handling stores full copies of renamed files in the repo.
There is a plan to fix it, a student worked on it last year, and more
recently Sune did some work during the sprint.

Cheers,

Benoit