[Buildbot-devel] State of mercurial support

[Marcus Lindblom]

bugs-fmtj/nfC571eoWH0uzbU5w at public.gmane.org wrote:

> Good solution here (IMHO) is to create new mode (mode=export?), in which supported backends will be using shallow-copy-of-only-versioned-files-like behavior from local master (svn export, hg archive, ...). I'd write it for hg, but I'm not familiar with buildbot's infrastructure enough to write whole new mode with tests. I'm willing to do a work on it, but I'd need a guidance; anyone willing to guide/contribute/write?
> 
> Problem is that with all current modes, for our repo (~300-400MB), using buildbot is *very* slow and it's response is far from being responsive enough.

We're starting to use mercurial here, and I'm a bit worried about this. 
Any news on this?

/Marcus