Am 04.07.2011 23:03, schrieb Antoine Pitrou:
> 
> Le lundi 04 juillet 2011 à 22:51 +0200, Dirkjan Ochtman a écrit :
>> On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 21:01, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote:
>> > I've upgraded the Mercurial version on hg.python.org to 1.9.
>> > Also, I've enabled the experimental "generaldelta" repository feature on
>> > the server, which makes the repository smaller (down from ~350 MB to
>> > ~190 MB), regardless of the client version.
>> 
>> Did you ask the hg guys about the generaldelta thing? IIRC it's
>> actually experimental, which I wouldn't use on something like the
>> production repository python devs use.
> 
> From my discussions with them the core functionality was pretty much
> stable. I had tried it locally a couple of times when 1.9 was still in
> development.
> I guess we should run "hg verify" on the server from time to time,
> anyway.
> 
> Also, it doesn't imply anything on the client side, where generaldelta
> is still disabled by default.

Which means, translated for the less Mercurial-savvy, that we can restore
the python.org repo by copying any of the developers' local clones to the
server, should use of this new format indeed corrupt the repo.

Georg

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