doc/README
author Boris Feld <boris.feld@octobus.net>
Fri, 27 Jul 2018 12:08:10 +0200
changeset 39087 f90b333e79cb
parent 9419 3516a4e877c1
permissions -rw-r--r--
revlog: filter out "invalid" delta base candidates There are bases that we know won't produce a good delta chain. For example, if the base is already bigger than twice the size of the text we store, we know the resulting delta chain will never be valid. We might make the check a bit more powerful and generic in the future, but this looks a good start. In particular, empty file (size 0) will never find a good base, so we should stop spending time trying to find one.

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