Stéphane Magnenat wrote:
> 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
>
>   

how much space are all of the files that you want to delete using?



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