Thanks for the hg facilities!

[Johannes Totz]

On 04/01/2015 11:37, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote:
> Am Sonntag, 4. Januar 2015, 10:53:35 schrieb Harry .:
>> <quote author="Steve Barnes">
>> Just to add my 2¢: Almost all VSCs have issues with large binary files - 
>> they are after all not source code - and Mercurial has a very nice way 
>> of avoiding the issue with the Large Files extension.
>> </quote>
>>
>> True. My point was that git handles them (wrt moves and copies) much better than mercurial.
> 
> For repository size that’s still true. That’s an area where Mercurial
> development stalled, because no one took up the task - though there
> have been plans how to implement it cleanly for a long time:
> http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/RenameSpaceSavingPlan

That page links to an email:
http://www.selenic.com/pipermail/mercurial-devel/2008-February/004983.html

Does anyone know if that led to anything? Peter's idea sounds easy to
implement. (I've downloaded hackable hg and took a cursory look, but I
know nothing about python. Maybe now is a good time to start :) )



Johannes