hg-git converted repo is massive

[Augie Fackler]

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On Jan 27, 2013, at 5:40 PM, Harvey Chapman <hchapman-hg at 3gfp.com> wrote:

> I wanted to keep a local copy of a kernel repo in our mercurial server. So I cloned the 660M git repo and got a 5GB mercurial repo (not including the internal copy of the git repo). Is there anything I can do about this?

Does 'hg convert' produce such an insane repo?

> Is there any way to start history in the cloned repo at a much more recent commit?

hg-git doesn't have this feature, but it might be useful if someone sent a patch. I'm not sure. I'm a little surprised that hg-git produced such a massive hg repo out of that git repo.

> 
> Thanks,
> Harvey
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