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

set -e

mkdir test
cd test
echo foo>foo
hg init
hg addremove
hg commit -m "1"
hg verify

hg clone . ../branch
cd ../branch
hg co
echo bar>>foo
hg commit -m "2"

cd ../test
hg pull ../branch
hg verify
hg co
cat foo
hg manifest --debug