> Will we continue to keep the source tarballs in the gate, or will they be
> external? I know that mercurial has had performance problems with large
> binary blobs in the past; I don't know if they've been solved.
There has been some ideas about splitting the big files into smaller
chunks, but as far as I know it has no priority.
> Also note that as of now, there's no way to eradicate history,
Well, technically there is 'convert' extension, which can create new
repository excluding given set of files. But it means creating fresh new
repository.
> so all the old versions of things will stick around forever, even long
> past the time we've stopped caring, and people building current
> workspaces don't want to download stuff.
--
Vlad
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