On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 13:56:46 -0700 Brett Cannon <br...@python.org> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 13:31, Alexander Belopolsky > <alexander.belopol...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote: > > .. > >> But maybe with Hg it's less of a burden to ask people to use a checkout. > >> > > > > I thought with Hg it would be more of a burden for casual contributors > > to use a checkout simply because the checkout is many times bigger. > > Many times bigger than what? If you mean svn that's not true (the eval > of the DVCS pegged Hg at only 50% larger than svn). If you mean > compared to the tar.bz2 file, then sure, but a zip of an Hg checkout > is under 50 MB which is less than 5x larger.
The disk footprint is not very much larger, but I assume that the amount of bandwidth needed for a first checkout can easily be 10x or 50x. (then, if you keep the checkout around, pulling new revisions is very efficient) That said, it seems there are tools to optimize the internal structures of an hg repository so that it takes less disk space (and therefore less checkout bandwidth). I don't know whether Dirkjan intends to use that. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
