log . ... file . ... file log . ... find changesets by author, revision, files, or words in the commit message . Extracted examples from .zip file zip gives: - smaller overall size - more work to add new examples - more work for end user - inability for VCS to track each example separately Mercurial itself does compress it's history, so, by adding one large binary file you may have even increased the repository size, not decreased it. author . ...