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
#
# Corrupt an hg repo with a pull started during an aborted commit
#
# Create two repos, so that one of them can pull from the other one.
hg init source
cd source
touch foo
hg add foo
hg ci -m 'add foo'
hg clone . ../corrupted
echo >> foo
hg ci -m 'change foo'
# Add a hook to wait 5 seconds and then abort the commit
cd ../corrupted
echo '[hooks]' >> .hg/hgrc
echo 'pretxncommit = sleep 5; exit 1' >> .hg/hgrc
# start a commit...
touch bar
hg add bar
hg ci -m 'add bar' &
# ... and start a pull while the commit is still running
sleep 1
hg pull ../source 2>/dev/null
# see what happened
wait
hg verify