revlog: generate trivial deltas against null revision To avoid extra memory usage and performance issues with large files, generate a trivial delta header for deltas against the null revision rather than calling the usual delta generator. We append the delta header to meta rather than prepending it to data to avoid a large allocate and copy.

#!/bin/sh

hg init a
cd a
echo bar > foo
hg add foo
hg ci -m 'add foo' -d '1000000 0'

echo foobar > foo
hg ci -m 'change foo' -d '1000001 0'

echo 'quiet:'
hg --quiet diff -r 0 -r 1
echo

echo 'normal:'
hg diff -r 0 -r 1
echo

echo 'verbose:'
hg --verbose diff -r 0 -r 1
echo

echo 'debug:'
hg --debug diff -r 0 -r 1
echo