README.rst

revlog: ignore empty trailing chunks when reading segments

When a merge commit creates an empty diff in the revlog, its offset may still
be quite far from the end of the previous chunk.
Skipping these empty chunks may reduce read size significantly.
In most cases, there is no gain, and in some cases, little gain.
On my clone of pypy, `hg manifest` reads 65% less bytes (96140 i/o 275943) for
revision 4260 by ignoring the only empty trailing diff.
For revision 2229, 35% (34557 i/o 53435)
Sadly, this is difficult to reproduce, as hg clone can make its own different
structure every time.

Mercurial
=========

Mercurial is a fast, easy to use, distributed revision control tool
for software developers.

Basic install::

 $ make            # see install targets
 $ make install    # do a system-wide install
 $ hg debuginstall # sanity-check setup
 $ hg              # see help

Running without installing::

 $ make local      # build for inplace usage
 $ ./hg --version  # should show the latest version

See https://mercurial-scm.org/ for detailed installation
instructions, platform-specific notes, and Mercurial user information.