Mercurial popularity is stagnant

[Michael McNeil Forbes]

On Jul 1, 2014, at 12:55 PM, Matthew Turk <matthewturk at gmail.com> wrote:
> We're an hg shop that does long running scientific simulations, but
> we've avoided versioning data alongside code for this reason.  My
> recollection is that git-annex enables multiple different backends.

It is not obvious to me how to do this: it does allow one to use different
types of remote stores ("special remotes") but I don't see anything
about being able to hook in hg.  The source code looks like it might be
modular enough that adapting it to use hg would be possible, but it does
not look like it has been designed with this as a major goal (though
it would be awesome).

> I wonder if it would be possible to have the largefiles extension for hg
> use different backends?  This would be nicely in lien with the
> increasing prominence of object stores in supercomputing centers.

I thought of this, but it seems like reinventing the wheel. Hooking
into git-annex would probably be a better strategy since Joel has
taken care to solve some of the tricky issues with synchronization.
Maybe it is a good excuse to brush up on my Haskell!

I was hoping to find a workflow solution that uses myrepos to manage
a git subrepository with my data, but the strategies I have tried with
this seem to convoluted right now.

Michael.