Mercurial slow, impoosible to clone/pull/push

[Augie Fackler]

On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 5:20 AM,  <junk2 at skjaerris.com> wrote:
> Hi All
>
> I have a mercurial repository, which includes 2 xml files..
> Par1.xml (size approx 1.5 MB) (600 revisions)
> Par2.xml (size approx 5 MB) (1200 revisions)
>
> It has been like that for some time, but lately I am struggling by making
> clone/pull/push from the mercurial repository. When I do a clone it's
> hanging when it reaches these 2 xml files, sometimes it goes though after
> 3-5 minutes other times it fails.


Are these xml files remarkable? Do they contain any newlines at all?

(We did see a bug a while ago around files that contained no newlines
at all, but I don't remember the details offhand.)