sparse-revlog: new requirement enabled with format.sparse-revlog
The meaning of the new 'sparse-revlog' requirement is that the revlogs are
allowed to contain wider delta chains with larger holes between the interesting
chunks. These sparse delta chains should be read in several chunks to avoid a
potential explosion of memory usage.
Former version won't know how to read a delta chain in several chunks. They
would keep reading them in a single read, and therefore would be subject to the
potential memory explosion. Hence this new requirement: only versions having
support of sparse-revlog reading should be allowed to read such a revlog.
Implementation of this new algorithm and tools to enable or disable the
requirement will follow in the next changesets.
Create an empty repo:
$ hg init a
$ cd a
Try some commands:
$ hg log
$ hg grep wah
[1]
$ hg manifest
$ hg verify
checking changesets
checking manifests
crosschecking files in changesets and manifests
checking files
0 files, 0 changesets, 0 total revisions
Check the basic files created:
$ ls .hg
00changelog.i
requires
store
Should be empty:
$ ls .hg/store
Poke at a clone:
$ cd ..
$ hg clone a b
updating to branch default
0 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ cd b
$ hg verify
checking changesets
checking manifests
crosschecking files in changesets and manifests
checking files
0 files, 0 changesets, 0 total revisions
$ ls .hg
00changelog.i
hgrc
requires
store
Should be empty:
$ ls .hg/store
$ cd ..