This is a first attempt to build an Mercurial mirror : http://hg.zope.mirrors.securactive.org/ - Size SVN 2.13go Hg 780mo Hg (only trunk for each package) 440mo - co (only last commit) SVN seb@wiener:~$ time svn co svn://svn.zope.org/repos/main/zope.component/trunk ... real 0m5.158s user 0m0.028s sys 0m0.996s Hg (all commits, it's a clone) seb@wiener:~$ time hg clone http://hg.zope.mirrors.securactive.org/zope.component/ ... real 0m3.394s user 0m0.280s sys 0m0.552s Improvments ------------------- - mapping of svn user / full name & email (hg convention) - a description for each project What do you think? Hope this help everybody to understand the benefits of DVCS and leverage facility to submit a patch. -- Sebastien Douche <sdouche@gmail.com>