On Wednesday 26 November 2008 00:25:56 Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov wrote: > On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 6:17 PM, Stéphane Magnenat > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wednesday 26 November 2008 00:12:49 Kai Antweiler wrote: > >> You are absolutely right. We ignore the undering concept - as we often > >> do. We have only a hand full of active developers. Therefore it isn't > >> that bad. > >> > >> If some users already have those revisions locally (which is unlikely > >> because they aren't in the default branch), it won't hurt. > > > > As far as I know, updating or cloning the repository does clone > > everything. So this is not clean :-( > > You are right that cloning a repository essentially creates copies of > all of the files that ever existed in the history of a repository. The > older files are stored in this directory, I think: .hg/store/data/ > (http://hgbook.red-bean.com/hgbookch4.html) > > Can you explain what is wrong with keeping the object files in the > history and spreading them on other people's computers even if they > are hidden somewhere in .hg/store/data/?
It just consumes useless bandwidth and storage space forever, and it is not clean to do so. Have a nice day, Steph -- http://stephane.magnenat.net _______________________________________________ glob2-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/glob2-devel
