Re: Making NetBeans' Mercurial More Manageable

>
> [...] To put this into perspective, the ZIP file containing all the sources

for NetBeans 7.1 is only around 170 MB.  In order to change even a
> single line of code in NetBeans, you must check out the entire
> NetBeans repository, which is more than fifteen times bigger at around
> 3 GB! [...]
>

With BitBucket you could download just the tip (
https://bitbucket.org/netbeans/main-silver/get/tip.zi p) which is about 200
MB.


> Also, I wanted to mention that the Mercurial 2.0 was released
> yesterday and it includes the "Largefiles Extension" [1].  As I
> understand it, this could mean that NetBeans' custom solution [2] to
> binary file storage might not be necessary in the future.


Interesting. Seems surprisingly similar to the NetBeans solution (sha1,
etc).

--emi

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