.hg directory has eclipsed 3GB - how to deal with huge manifest?

[Patrick Mézard]

bughound a écrit :
> As our project has progressed, so has the manifest (.hg directory).  
> 
> It's now over 3GB and causing anyone who wants to clone a new area a
> 20-minute wait while the .hg directory gets populated over our network.
> 
> What's the recommended way for resetting this?
> 
> One would think it should be fairly straightforward to archive this manifest
> off somewhere else and start it from scratch periodically...

By curiosity, can you give some numbers about your project like the number of revisions, the size of the manifest, etc... An estimate of the ratio of merge revisions over total revisions would be interesting too.

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Patrick Mézard