--- a/README	Wed Feb 12 17:18:50 2014 -0800
+++ b/README	Thu Feb 20 12:56:57 2014 -0800
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@
 
 3.3.0 --
 
+- added Augie Facklers `fastop` extension (usage not recommended yet)
 - add verbose hint about how to handle corner case by hand.
   This should help people until evolve is able to to it itself.
 - removed the qsync extension. The only user I knew about (logilab) is not

--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/hgfastobs.py	Thu Feb 20 12:56:57 2014 -0800
@@ -0,0 +1,124 @@
+"""Extension to try and speed up transfer of obsolete markers.
+
+Mercurial 2.6 transfers obsolete markers in the dumbest way possible:
+it simply transfers all of them to the server on every
+operation. While this /works/, it's not ideal because it's a large
+amount of extra data for users to pull down (1.9M for the 17k obsolete
+markers in hg-crew as of this writing in late July 2013). It's also
+frustrating because this transfer takes a nontrivial amount of time.
+
+You can specify a strategy with the config knob
+obsolete.syncstrategy. Current strategies are "stock" and
+"boxfill". Default strategy is presently boxfill.
+
+:stock: use the default strategy of mercurial explaned above
+
+:boxfill: transmit obsolete markers which list any of transmitted changesets as
+          a successor (transitively), as well as any kill markers for dead
+          nodes descended from any of the precursors of outgoing.missing.
+
+TODO(durin42): consider better names for sync strategies.
+"""
+import sys
+
+from mercurial import base85
+from mercurial import commands
+from mercurial import extensions
+from mercurial import node
+from mercurial import obsolete
+from mercurial import exchange
+from mercurial import revset
+from mercurial.i18n import _
+
+_strategies = {
+    'stock': exchange._pushobsolete,
+    }
+
+def _strategy(name, default=False):
+    def inner(func):
+        _strategies[name] = func
+        if default:
+            _strategies[None] = func
+        return func
+    return inner
+
+def _pushobsoletewrapper(orig, pushop):
+    stratfn = _strategies[pushop.repo.ui.config('obsolete', 'syncstrategy')]
+    return stratfn(pushop)
+
+extensions.wrapfunction(exchange, '_pushobsolete', _pushobsoletewrapper)
+
+def _precursors(repo, s):
+    """Precursor of a changeset"""
+    cs = set()
+    nm = repo.changelog.nodemap
+    markerbysubj = repo.obsstore.precursors
+    for r in s:
+        for p in markerbysubj.get(repo[r].node(), ()):
+            pr = nm.get(p[0])
+            if pr is not None:
+                cs.add(pr)
+    return cs
+
+def _revsetprecursors(repo, subset, x):
+    s = revset.getset(repo, revset.baseset(range(len(repo))), x)
+    cs = _precursors(repo, s)
+    return revset.baseset([r for r in subset if r in cs])
+
+revset.symbols['_fastobs_precursors'] = _revsetprecursors
+
+
+@_strategy('boxfill', default=True)
+def boxfill(pushop):
+    """The "fill in the box" strategy from the 2.6 sprint.
+
+    See the notes[0] from the 2.6 sprint for what "fill in the box"
+    means here. It's a fairly subtle algorithm, which may have
+    surprising behavior at times, but was the least-bad option
+    proposed at the sprint.
+
+    [0]: https://bitbucket.org/durin42/2.6sprint-notes/src/tip/mercurial26-obsstore-rev.1398.txt
+    """
+    repo = pushop.repo
+    remote = pushop.remote
+    outgoing = pushop.outgoing
+    urepo = pushop.repo.unfiltered()
+    # need to collect obsolete markers which list any of
+    # outgoing.missing as a successor (transitively), as well as any
+    # kill markers for dead nodes descended from any of the precursors
+    # of outgoing.missing.
+    boxedges = urepo.revs(
+        '(descendants(_fastobs_precursors(%ln)) or '
+        ' descendants(%ln)) and hidden()',
+        outgoing.missing, outgoing.missing)
+    transmit = []
+    for node in outgoing.missing:
+        transmit.extend(obsolete.precursormarkers(urepo[node]))
+    for node in boxedges:
+        transmit.extend(obsolete.successormarkers(urepo[node]))
+    transmit = list(set(transmit))
+    xmit, total = len(transmit), len(repo.obsstore._all)
+    repo.ui.status(
+        'boxpush: about to transmit %d obsolete markers (%d markers total)\n'
+        % (xmit, total))
+    parts, size, chunk = [], 0, 0
+    def transmitmarks():
+            repo.ui.note(
+                'boxpush: sending a chunk of obsolete markers\n')
+            data = ''.join([obsolete._pack('>B', obsolete._fmversion)] + parts)
+            remote.pushkey('obsolete', 'dump-%d' % chunk, '',
+                           base85.b85encode(data))
+
+    for marker in transmit:
+        enc = obsolete._encodeonemarker(_markertuple(marker))
+        parts.append(enc)
+        size += len(enc)
+        if size > obsolete._maxpayload:
+            transmitmarks()
+            parts, size = [], 0
+            chunk += 1
+    if parts:
+        transmitmarks()
+
+def _markertuple(marker):
+    return marker._data

--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/tests/test-boxpush.t	Thu Feb 20 12:56:57 2014 -0800
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+  $ fastobs="$TESTDIR"/../hgfastobs.py
+  $ echo 'from mercurial import obsolete ; obsolete._enabled = True' > enableobs.py
+  $ cat >> $HGRCPATH <<EOF
+  > [obsolete]
+  > syncstrategy = boxfill
+  > [extensions]
+  > EOF
+  $ echo "enable-obsolete = $PWD/enableobs.py" >> $HGRCPATH
+  $ echo "fastobs = $fastobs" >> $HGRCPATH
+
+  $ hg init alice
+  $ hg init bob
+  $ hg init trent
+  $ cd alice
+  $ echo a > a
+  $ hg addr && hg ci -m 'add a'
+  adding a
+  $ echo aa >> a
+  $ hg ci -m 'edit a'
+  $ echo aa > a
+  $ hg ci --amend -m 'edit a'
+  $ hg debugobsolete
+  e772e827cd64564621e7e5af15c9f848e3b92c8e efa8cd969bc37e6a1330c29f4234fe9e9be681b3 0 {'date': '* 0', 'user': 'test'} (glob)
+  5ccfcbc00f2a19cd7affedce5ff087e68e67c6cc 0 {'date': '* 0', 'user': 'test'} (glob)
+  $ hg push ../trent
+  pushing to ../trent
+  searching for changes
+  adding changesets
+  adding manifests
+  adding file changes
+  added 2 changesets with 2 changes to 1 files
+  boxpush: about to transmit 2 obsolete markers (2 markers total)
+  $ cd ../bob
+  $ hg pull ../trent
+  pulling from ../trent
+  requesting all changes
+  adding changesets
+  adding manifests
+  adding file changes
+  added 2 changesets with 2 changes to 1 files
+  (run 'hg update' to get a working copy)
+  $ hg debugobsolete | sort
+  5ccfcbc00f2a19cd7affedce5ff087e68e67c6cc 0 {'date': '* 0', 'user': 'test'} (glob)
+  e772e827cd64564621e7e5af15c9f848e3b92c8e efa8cd969bc37e6a1330c29f4234fe9e9be681b3 0 {'date': '* 0', 'user': 'test'} (glob)