Mercurial repository performance for small files

[Dirkjan Ochtman]

On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 01:54, Laurens Holst <laurens.nospam at grauw.nl> wrote:
> Now I understand the reason for the current repository layout, to provide
> transactional behaviour and reduce the risk of data loss, but nevertheless
> it might be worth investigating ways to aggregate and reduce the number of
> files in the repository. This would improve clone performance, and also
> reduce the repository’s disk space consumption.

Of course that has much less impact on local clones.

And another important goal for the current repository layout, AIUI, is
to have good performance on things like hg log <file> and hg annotate.

Cheers,

Dirkjan