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Re:Ask HN: Why is there so much talk about git but little ab... by bretthoerner on Saturday December 13, 2008 @10:55PM (#397206)
Mercurial has extension support, and one of them (used for example on the OpenJDK project - a "real" project of some size) is "Forest", which does just that: http://www.bitbucket.org/pmezard/hgforest-crew/overview/
Re:Ask HN: Why is there so much talk about git but little ab... by DenisM on Sunday December 14, 2008 @12:15AM (#397238)
there is no documentation at all...
Re:Ask HN: Why is there so much talk about git but little ab... by anthonyb on Sunday December 14, 2008 @06:23AM (#397329)
Most things can be found on the Mercurial repository:

http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/ForestExtens...

Not sure why there are no docs in the hgforest repository though - that seems like a pretty big oversight.