Reducing repository size in Mercurial

Question

As my team works on a given project with the source in a Mercurial repository, the repository is obviously growing in size. As such, cloning a repository over the network become

Answer 1

You can use a dedicated clone of the remote repo on your computer as a cache for clone operations. So you don't need to transfer the whole repo over the net every time, but only the parts which are not already there.