Re: [glob2-devel] Hg cleanup status

[Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov]

On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 6:17 PM, Stéphane Magnenat
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On Wednesday 26 November 2008 00:12:49 Kai Antweiler wrote:
>> You are absolutely right. We ignore the undering concept - as we often do.
>> We have only a hand full of active developers. Therefore it isn't that bad.
>>
>> If some users already have those revisions locally (which is unlikely
>> because they aren't in the default branch), it won't hurt.
>
> As far as I know, updating or cloning the repository does clone everything. So
> this is not clean :-(

You are right that cloning a repository essentially creates copies of
all of the files that ever existed in the history of a repository. The
older files are stored in this directory, I think: .hg/store/data/
(http://hgbook.red-bean.com/hgbookch4.html)

Can you explain what is wrong with keeping the object files in the
history and spreading them on other people's computers even if they
are hidden somewhere in .hg/store/data/?

Thanks.

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Michael Ploujnikov
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