The ‘Try’ repository and its evolution
Recently (the past few years actually) we’ve been experiencing that Mercurial has problems scaling to it’s activity. Here are some statistics for example:
- 24550 Mercurial heads (this is reset every few months)
- Head count correlated with the degraded performance
- 4.3 GB in size, 203509 files without a working copy
One of the methods we’re attempting is to modify try so that each push is not a head, but is instead a bundle that can be applied cleanly to any [mozilla-central](https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central" target="_blank) tree.