Suggested Functionality to Better Manage Repo Size

Hey folks,

We’re using Mercurial for game development, and we need to be able to check in assets with code - we really, really need them in sync.

We already hand off huge assets like audio + video to Dropbox, where it isn’t so crucial that they stay in sync with code, but we still hit the 2gb limit, about once every 4-6 months.

What we’ve been doing is using the Convert extension, to convert from hg → hg, omitting everything except code, so that we only keep the code history, manually copying everything else over, and pushing the result to a brand new repo, before migrating everyone to it. It’s quite tedious.

What would be far preferable is the ability to set a per directory 'history count', so that we only store 2 previous versions for asset directories. Or to allow us to the history from selected directories in place from the website. Anything but having to migrate to a new repo when we hit the limit.

We love Mercurial - it’s perfect for us for everything except this issue. I guess the alternative would be that we move to git + gitlfs, but we’re not in a good place to do that with our current project.

cheers,

Ricky