revlog: increase I/O bound to 4x the amount of data consumed
This doesn't affect normal clones since they'd be bound by the CPU bound below
anyway -- it does, however, improve generaldelta clones significantly.
This also results in better deltaing for generaldelta clones -- in generaldelta
clones, we calculate deltas with respect to the closest base if it has a higher
revision number than either parent. If the base is on a significantly different
branch, this can result in pointlessly massive deltas. This reduces the number
of bases and hence the number of bad deltas.
Empirically, for a highly branchy repository, this resulted in an improvement
of around 15% to manifest size.
http://mercurial.selenic.com/bts/issue612
$ hg init
$ mkdir src
$ echo a > src/a.c
$ hg ci -Ama
adding src/a.c
$ hg mv src source
moving src/a.c to source/a.c (glob)
$ hg ci -Ammove
$ hg co -C 0
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 1 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ echo new > src/a.c
$ echo compiled > src/a.o
$ hg ci -mupdate
created new head
$ hg status
? src/a.o
$ hg merge
merging src/a.c and source/a.c to source/a.c
0 files updated, 1 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
(branch merge, don't forget to commit)
$ hg status
M source/a.c
R src/a.c
? src/a.o