Excess data size for a single revision

Eli Zaretskii eliz at gnu.org
Wed Jan 25 13:49:51 UTC 2012


> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier at iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: rgm at gnu.org,  john at arbash-meinel.com,  mbp at sourcefrog.net,  bazaar at lists.canonical.com
> Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 08:27:54 -0500
> 
> > You are missing the point.  I didn't complain about the large size of
> > the revision that changes all 2000 files.  I complained about the
> > revision that changes twice that much, for some reason.  See the
> > numbers shown by John in his analysis of the merge commit.
> 
> Same difference: if we merge emacs-23 into the trunk, then when we fetch
> the trunk we'll fetch the large diff on the trunk plus the large diff on
> emacs-23 because Bazaar always wants to have the complete DAG locally.

But in this case, we fetched the large diff on the emacs-23 branch
plus _twice_ the large diff from the trunk.  It is that twice part
that shouldn't have happened.



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