Re: [glob2-devel] Hg cleanup status

[Stéphane Magnenat]

On Wednesday 26 November 2008 00:25:56 Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov wrote:
> 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/?

It just consumes useless bandwidth and storage space forever, and it is not 
clean to do so.

Have a nice day,

Steph

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