Reducing repository size in Mercurial

Question

As my team works on a given project with the source in a Mercurial repository, the repository is obviously growing in size. As such, cloning a repository over the network become

Answer 1

One option is to use the convert extension to decompose your repository to a group of smaller repositories.

Say you have a repository that has evolved to contain many projects (folders). And you have decided you’d be better off if each project (folder) were a separate repository. You can use the convert extension to do just that and retain your changeset history.