Pierre-Yves David <pierre-yves.david@octobus.net> [Sun, 10 Mar 2019 19:01:56 +0100] rev 41928
discovery-helper: use reflink copy if available
A reflink copy will copy the files "as usual" but keep using the same data block
underneath. This is only supported by "copy on write" file system like btrfs or
zfs.
This will achieve similar performance that the existing hardlink clone that
Mercurial performs with the same initial space saving. However, it will behave
better on revlogs start being touch by strip. Instead of duplicating all data in
the touched revlogs, only the block actually affected by the strip will be
duplicated. This save a lot of space when building many variants of large
repositories.
The --reflink=always flag make sure the `cp` call fails if reflink copies are
not supported. Falling back to local clone.
Pierre-Yves David <pierre-yves.david@octobus.net> [Sun, 10 Mar 2019 18:52:22 +0100] rev 41927
discovery-helper: bail out if destination already exists
Pierre-Yves David <pierre-yves.david@octobus.net> [Sun, 10 Mar 2019 18:50:38 +0100] rev 41926
discovery-helper: move repository creation in a function
This makes it easier to update this duplicated code.
(we do a small output fix as we go)
Pierre-Yves David <pierre-yves.david@octobus.net> [Fri, 08 Mar 2019 21:38:57 +0100] rev 41925
discovery-helper: add an extra argument to generate only one repo
This is useful to generate left and right in parallel when dealing with very
large repositories.