Well, I was able to edit them with sed script to remove all masks, but
parsing XML to find used/unused masks is beyond my skills (I'm not
familiar with XMP standards). I believe future DT releases should sort
this out in some way. At least for this issue is very critical, it
slows down opening/closing files in my library multiple times.

On Mon, 2018-04-16 at 10:19 +0200, sturmflut wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I can confirm this for the latest version in the darktable-2.4.x
> branch
> (commit edf1168371be288f071986d93a47fb3e082573de). The sidecar files
> seem to contain an awful lot of masks, but I can't seem to see which
> module even uses them?
> 
> cheers,
> Simon
> 
> 
> On 15.04.2018 20:28, Timur Irikovich Davletshin wrote:
> > It looks like I was able to find what action causes this problem.
> > 
> > Steps to reproduce:
> > 
> > 1. Download, unpack and import as folder — https://drive.google.com
> > /ope
> > n?id=14sZLgnpZSV5W3pw1K_8owHW29Heq9EWz (don't pay attention to
> > content
> > and settings)
> > 2. Choose second picture and click (in lighttable mode) copy
> > history
> > stack and choose, let's say, 'shadows and highlights' settings.
> > 3. Apply it (paste) to first picture, open it, compress history
> > stack
> > and close DT.
> > 4. Now compare XMP files, first one is twice bigger than second one
> > (in
> > my case ~700kB vs ~1400kB). Meanwhile in darkroom mode history
> > stack
> > looks the same.
> > 
> > Can anyone comment, what is going on here?
> 
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