Boris Feld <boris.feld@octobus.net> [Wed, 15 Aug 2018 12:09:14 +0200] rev 39152
revlog: add a method to retrieve snapshot depth
Some snapshot property (eg: maximum size) will depend on their depth.
Boris Feld <boris.feld@octobus.net> [Fri, 27 Jul 2018 10:52:43 +0200] rev 39151
debugrevlog: include information about intermediate snapshots
As we are about to create intermediate snapshots, we need to have a way to
debug them. We start by adding very simple debug output and more detailed
output will comes in next changesets.
Paul Morelle <paul.morelle@octobus.net> [Fri, 20 Jul 2018 13:34:48 +0200] rev 39150
revlog: also detect intermediate snapshots
Also detect intermediate-snapshot done against another previous snapshot.
Doing an intermediate snapshot instead of a full one can reduce the number of
full snapshots we need. They are especially useful for content with a lot of
churn on the same line (eg: the manifest) where having a delta over multiple
revisions can end up being significantly smaller than the sum of these
revision deltas.
A revlog built using intermediate snapshots can be a bit smaller and reuse
snapshot much more efficiently. This last property is useful combined with
constraints on chain length. Using intermediate snapshot can produce
repository with delta chain ten times shorter without impact on the storage
size. Shorter chain lengths are faster to restore, greatly improving read
performance.
This changesets (and the following ones) focus on getting the core principle
of intermediate snapshots into Mercurial core. Later changeset will introduce
the strategy to create them.