changegroup: avoid large copies - handle chunk headers separately rather than prepending them to (potentially large) chunks - break large chunks into 1M pieces for compression - don't prepend file metadata onto (potentially large) file data

#!/bin/sh

mkdir a
cd a
hg init
echo 123 > a
hg add a
hg commit -m "a" -u a -d "1000000 0"

cd ..
mkdir b
cd b
hg init
echo 321 > b
hg add b
hg commit -m "b" -u b -d "1000000 0"

hg pull ../a
hg pull -f ../a
hg heads