sapling/lz4revlog

lz4revlog

Uses the fast lz4 compression algorithm to compress data stored by Mercurial.

On large real-world repositories, this can improve Mercurial's performance significantly, though at the cost of 20-40% extra disk space used.

Installing

First, install the python-lz4 bindings and make them available in your Python environment.

Then, run

:::sh
hg clone https://bitbucket.org/facebook/lz4revlog

In your user .hgrc, add the following lines:

:::ini
[extensions]
lz4revlog = path/to/this/directory/lz4revlog.py

Using

Mercurial decides what features to use at clone time, so to use lz4revlog you will need to make fresh clones. As long as the extension is enabled, any fresh clones you make will use lz4 compression.

Testing

lz4revlog includes some basic tests, which can be run by cloning the Mercurial repository to a separate directory:

:::sh
hg clone http://mercurial-scm.org/hg

and then running the tests with:

:::sh
cd path/to/this/directory/tests
python path/to/hg/tests/run-tests.py

Contributing

Patches are welcome as pull requests, though they will be collapsed and rebased to maintain a linear history. We may also set up a Phabricator project on https://reviews.facebook.net/ soon.

We (Facebook) have to ask for a "Contributor License Agreement" from someone who sends in a patch or code that we want to include in the codebase. This is a legal requirement; a similar situation applies to Apache and other ASF projects.

If we ask you to fill out a CLA we'll direct you to our online CLA page where you can complete it easily. We use the same form as the Apache CLA so that friction is minimal.

License

lz4revlog is made available under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2, or any later version. See the COPYING file that accompanies this distribution for the full text of the license.