revlog: break up compression of large deltas Python's zlib apparently makes an internal copy of strings passed to compress(). To avoid this, compress strings 1M at a time, then join them at the end if the result would be smaller than the original. For initial commits of large but compressible files, this cuts peak memory usage nearly in half.

#!/bin/sh

hg init rep
cd rep
mkdir dir
touch foo dir/bar
hg -v addremove
hg -v commit -m "add 1" -d "1000000 0"
cd dir/
touch ../foo_2 bar_2
hg -v addremove
hg -v commit -m "add 2" -d "1000000 0"

cd ..
hg init sim
cd sim
echo a > a
echo a >> a
echo a >> a
echo c > c
hg commit -Ama
mv a b
rm c
echo d > d
hg addremove -s 50
hg commit -mb