Thanks for the hg facilities!

[Harry .]

arne_bab worte:

>> Seconded. Wouldn't mind smaller repositories
>
> Did you try the size with different repositories? In my tests, git and
> hg are very close in size, but git repos enlarge a lot when you don’t
> repack + garbage collect regularly (and auto-gc does not cut it).

After moving some large binary dependencies around within the source tree, git repo is a small fraction the size of hg repo. Happens to a lesser extent when moving lots of text files as well.

Another trigger for this is lots of similar files - came up on the list recently with translated resources.

>> and git-style tags either.
>
> unversioned, centralized, “follow the canonical repo” tags? Something
> like bookmarks which don’t follow your changes?

Yes, exactly that.

> Or is there a central usability issue which disturbs you when using
> hg tags?

Tagging polluting the commit log, and the daft situation where updating to a tag loses it.