Version Control Repository on a “Cloud”

[Matt Mackall]

On Mon, 2013-11-11 at 08:02 +0000, Pietro Moras wrote:
> Thinking over again about the subject of a web
> Mercurial repository, I realized that the very, basic question is
> another.
> 
> ?)  How can it be that a Project under Version
> Control, when on the web, requires a special, dedicated repository,
> instead of a bit of normal room into a usual Cloud directory?

There's a very simple answer: this is a volunteer project and in eight
years none of our many thousands of users has cared enough about this
problem to volunteer the code.

(That's probably because they realize that it would be too slow to be
practical for all but the smallest projects, and thus not worth the
effort.)

-- 
Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.