Not sure if it's better or not, but Mercurial has a concept called the RevLog[0]. A basic overview of it is here[1]. It sounds like the revlog format can beco

Not sure if it's better or not, but Mercurial has a concept called the RevLog[0]. A basic overview of it is here[1]. It sounds like the revlog format can become corrupted from time-to-time, but it's pretty rare now adays. [0] http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/RevlogNG http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/RevlogNG [1] http://ericsink.com/vcbe/html/repository_structure.html http://ericsink.com/vcbe/html/repository_structure.html EDIT: another blog explaining revlog format: http://gregoryszorc.com/blog/2014/02/05/the-mercurial-revlog/ http://gregoryszorc.com/blog/2014/02/05/the-mercurial-revlog...