Re: [fossil-users] how to find a delta manifest?

2013-08-19 Thread Andreas Kupries
The creation of delta manifest has to be activated explicitly, IIRC. Also, this is AFAIK not exposed on the command line, but requires some SQL to flip some config value in the fossil repository itself. I believe it was done to keep backward compat with most existing repositories managed by older

Re: [fossil-users] how to find a delta manifest?

2013-08-19 Thread Stephan Beal
In the mean time the checkin command has a -delta flag to force one... and then you can't get rid of them, it seems. i think they are a nice optimization, now that i have gotten to know them a bit. (sent from a mobile device - please excuse brevity, typos, and top-posting) - stephan beal

Re: [fossil-users] how to find a delta manifest?

2013-08-18 Thread Isaac Jurado
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

Re: [fossil-users] how to find a delta manifest?

2013-08-18 Thread Stephan Beal
On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 10:53 AM, Isaac Jurado dipto...@gmail.com wrote: 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. i had no idea there was a --delta

Re: [fossil-users] how to find a delta manifest?

2013-08-18 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 01:59:14PM +0200, Stephan Beal wrote: i don't yet understand the benefit of a delta manifest except that they save a few hundred (or thousand) lines of F-cards. Exactly. This sums up a lot if you look at something like http://pkgsrc.sonnenberger.org. You can fetch a copy

Re: [fossil-users] how to find a delta manifest?

2013-08-18 Thread Stephan Beal
On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 2:04 PM, Joerg Sonnenberger jo...@britannica.bec.de wrote: On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 01:59:14PM +0200, Stephan Beal wrote: i don't yet understand the benefit of a delta manifest except that they save a few hundred (or thousand) lines of F-cards. Exactly. This sums up

Re: [fossil-users] how to find a delta manifest?

2013-08-18 Thread Isaac Jurado
On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 10:53 AM, Isaac Jurado dipto...@gmail.com wrote: It's about backwards compatibility. Fossil will not generate delta manifest on commit unless there already are delta manifest on the repository

Re: [fossil-users] how to find a delta manifest?

2013-08-18 Thread Stephan Beal
On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 10:02 PM, Isaac Jurado dipto...@gmail.com wrote: As far as I've seen, delta manifest cannot be chained. There is a formula in the commit code that determines if a delta manifest is worth using or not. Therefore, when the parent of a delta manifest is also a delta

[fossil-users] how to find a delta manifest?

2013-08-17 Thread Stephan Beal
Hi, all, i'm looking for food for a test app and i'm trying to find a way to discover which manifests are delta manifests (i need some for testing). i naively assumed that most manifests would be deltas, but searching through my timeline i have yet to find a manifest link with a B card. Is there

Re: [fossil-users] how to find a delta manifest?

2013-08-17 Thread Richard Hipp
On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 12:06 PM, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.comwrote: Hi, all, i'm looking for food for a test app and i'm trying to find a way to discover which manifests are delta manifests (i need some for testing). i naively assumed that most manifests would be deltas, but searching

Re: [fossil-users] how to find a delta manifest?

2013-08-17 Thread Stephan Beal
On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 6:34 PM, Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org wrote: I think the Tcl/Tk repositories at http://core.tcl.tk/ are full of delta manifests. Thanks :). Cloning started, but this one will take a while (i need the clone because i'm testing the traversal of baseline manifests).

Re: [fossil-users] how to find a delta manifest?

2013-08-17 Thread Stephan Beal
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

Re: [fossil-users] how to find a delta manifest?

2013-08-17 Thread Kevin Kenny
On 08/17/2013 02:36 PM, Stephan Beal wrote: On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 6:50 PM, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com mailto: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