That sounds like y'all may have been storing binary blobs and large files with out the right plugins setup.
Just rename root directory of project and double size of your repo Mercurial didn't supported rename, and did delete/add instead, so size of repo grows pretty fast
alt Hacker News
Just rename root directory of project and double size of your repo Mercurial didn't supported rename, and did delete/add instead, so size of repo grows pretty fast