Mercurial popularity is stagnant

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Guys, please change the subject line to avoid hijacking this thread.

Thanks,
Gili

On 02/07/2014 10:39 AM, Michael McNeil Forbes [via Mercurial] wrote:
> On Jul 1, 2014, at 12:55 PM, Matthew Turk <[hidden email] 
> </user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=4011596&i=0>> 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.
>
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