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dirstate-v2: Use 32-bit integers instead of 64-bit for offsets
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Authored by SimonSapin on Jul 2 2021, 8:36 AM.

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Summary

This saves 12 bytes per node. (Nodes representing files or directories.)

These are offsets to other parts of the file. This would only be a limitation
for a .hg/dirstate file larger than 4 GiB, which would only happen for a
repository with dozens of millions of files and directories.

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