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Mercurial clones can be cached quite easily with 'clonebundles', a Mercurial feature that allows redirecting a clone to instead download a single 'bundle' (which could come from a …

Keep in mind that narrowhg is extremely experimental!

What version of Mercurial were you using? Additionally, was your repository very branchy? Were your pulls stuck for a very long time on 'adding manifests'? It's possible that your …

Mercurial has had 'largefiles' since Mercurial 2.0, 5 years ago.

For some added context about handling binaries in Mercurial, see the (in development) Mercurial book: http://hgbook.org/read/scaling.html#handle-large-binaries-wi...

Mercurial has had support for large binary files using the 'largefiles' extension for several years now.

I helped set up such a system for a few hundred developers. We had an 'automated Linus Torvalds', which did the merge, and aborted whenever a file was changed on both sides of the …

One possibility would be to have #else #error #endif If you work this way, you immediately know where to change your code.

I'm guessing it depends from project to project? There are several Google developers contributing to Mercurial.

One alternative to consider is Mercurial (which command-line wise is more similar to Subversion) with subrepos (which have better usability): http://www.selenic.com/hg/help/subrepo…

Interesting overview! Some of this caveats are kinda surprising for me, coming from a Mercurial background: * Every time you add a submodule, change its remote’s URL, or change the…

I believe this was a step in that direction: https://bitbucket.org/durin42/hgit

I wish Git would have used a different name than 'branch'. It's completely at odds with branches in any other version control system and only adds confusion for people switching to…

Make an appointment and try to talk to your teachers in person. Maybe they can guide you in the right direction, give you some pointers on what projects are suitable as a graduatio…

__attribute__((unused)) indeed would be the best option when using gcc. I believe when using C++11, this can be replaced by [[gnu::unused]]. Another one that I've seen quite often …