Check whether size of generaldelta revlog is not bigger than its regular equivalent. Test would fail if generaldelta was naive implementation of parentdelta: third manifest revision would be fully inserted due to big distance from its paren revision (zero). $ hg init repo $ cd repo $ echo foo > foo $ echo bar > bar $ hg commit -q -Am boo $ hg clone --pull . ../gdrepo -q --config format.generaldelta=yes $ for r in 1 2 3; do > echo $r > foo > hg commit -q -m $r > hg up -q -r 0 > hg pull . -q -r $r -R ../gdrepo > done $ cd .. >>> import os >>> regsize = os.stat("repo/.hg/store/00manifest.i").st_size >>> gdsize = os.stat("gdrepo/.hg/store/00manifest.i").st_size >>> if regsize < gdsize: ... print 'generaldata increased size of manifest'