On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 04:59:50PM -0700, Gregory Szorc wrote: > On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 3:12 PM, Mike Hommey <m...@glandium.org> wrote: > > > On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 02:10:07PM -0700, Gregory Szorc wrote: > > > # HG changeset patch > > > # User Gregory Szorc <gregory.sz...@gmail.com> > > > # Date 1471208237 25200 > > > # Sun Aug 14 13:57:17 2016 -0700 > > > # Node ID d2870bcbc43041909e9f637b294cb889f7ed4933 > > > # Parent eb2bc1ac7869ad255965d16004524a95cea83c9d > > > wireproto: introduce listkeys2 command > > > > > > The command behaves exactly like "listkeys" except it uses a more > > > efficient and more robust binary encoding mechanism. > > > > Nowhere in the patch queue I see mentioned why you want this. Not saying > > that this shouldn't be done, but it's really not clear what the expected > > benefit is of all this refactoring and this new command. > > > I said it concisely in the commit message you just quoted: the wire > encoding is smaller and is able to represent all binary values. I offer > more detail at > https://www.mercurial-scm.org/pipermail/mercurial-devel/2016-August/087243.html.
... and a large part of that message should be in this commit message. Mike _______________________________________________ Mercurial-devel mailing list Mercurial-devel@mercurial-scm.org https://www.mercurial-scm.org/mailman/listinfo/mercurial-devel
