hg and binary repository

[Martin Marques]

Matt Mackall escribió:
> On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 08:06:08AM -0300, Martin Marques wrote:
>> I'm curious about one thing: How scalable is hg in tracking a binary
>> repository, for example a repository with word documents?
> 
> Delta compression on such files isn't optimal, but it's decent.
> 
> But provided you can comfortably fit the document in memory, checking
> in the 1000th revision should take about the same amount of time as
> the 1st or 2nd. And for files of some small numbers of megabytes, that
> should be seconds.

I'm more interested in how .hg/ behaves as commits go by. Does it grow 
to fast, and how fast (linear, polinomial, exponential,..)?

BTW, is somebody doing VC on a directory with .doc and .xls files? And 
how about .odt?