On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 4:25 AM, Jacob Hallén <[email protected]> wrote:
> Saturday 26 February 2011 you wrote: > > In a message of Fri, 25 Feb 2011 22:36:16 +0100, Ronny Pfannschmidt > writes: > > >hi, > > > > > >this night i started taking a look at the extra repos that need to be > > >migrated. > > > > > >many of them contain reconstructible, but large pdf files, that i'd like > > >to kill off for saving space. > > > > Why should we ever care about space? > > A mercurial repository is cloned as a whole, including all revision > history. > This does take up a lot of space with text files, but produces very large > repositories with binary formats, resulting in bad behaviour on slow links > and > problems on devices with limited space. > > While I am fine with dropping older revisions of just about everything in > extradoc, I wonder if it wouldn't be better better for the future to keep > this > repository in svn format. That way you will only get one copy of everything > when cloning the repository. > > Jacob > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] > http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev > There's also http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/BigfilesExtension, which I know nothing about. Alex -- "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." -- Evelyn Beatrice Hall (summarizing Voltaire) "The people's good is the highest law." -- Cicero
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