On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 8:36 PM, Stephan Beal <sgb...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 6:50 PM, Stephan Beal <sgb...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> >> http://core.tcl.tk/tcl/artifact/5f37dcc36468eaa8 > > > i deconstructed the fossil repo and found not a single B card(!). i aborted > the deconstruct of the tcl repo at 11% and already had 9521 one of them. > > What makes tcl so special in this regard?
It's about backwards compatibility. Fossil will not generate delta manifest on commit unless there already are delta manifest on the repository or you force it on the command line. The TCL repository was probably converted with a Fossil version that had delta manifest support. I guess that almost all Fossil binaries in use now understand B cards, but as no one has committed to the Fossil repository with the "--delta" option yet, you will not find any delta manifest in it. Delta manifests are quite interesting because they follow the same design concepts as Mercurial's delta storage. I have already mentioned it, but I have a Fossil branch that can generate delta manifests on import. However, I still don't have any place to publish it. Regards. -- Isaac Jurado "The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding" Leonardo da Vinci _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
