[Python-Dev] Mercurial? (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Sun Apr 5 17🔞41 CEST 2009

Dirkjan Ochtman <dirkjan ochtman.nl> writes:

I also think 100MB+ is a cheap price to pay, given you only pay it in disk space (cheap) and initial clone time (not very often, and usually still quite fast).

It is a cheap price to pay if there is a significant return for it. In my experience using the hg mirror of the py3k branch, I don't remember having had to run "annotate" on the trunk to hunt for a change that I'd witnessed in py3k. Other developers may have different experiences, though.

As for the clone time, one of our proeminent developers is, IIRC, on a 40 kb/s line. Perhaps he wants to step in and say whether cloning the trunk is a painful experience for him, or not.

Also, at some point you presumably want to deprecate the whole 2.x line, right?

The consensus seems to be that it will not happen before a couple of years.

Okay, sounds like that will be easy. Would be good to enable compression on the SSH, though, if that's not already done.

Does the hg protocol compress that good? I would have thought there is already a lot of compression in the layout (given that it seems much more efficient than some of its competitors).

Regards

Antoine.

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