I have switched our internal codebase to use Mercurial, with a hosted remote repository. I've read that using Mercurial over SSH instead of HTTPS is faster because the data is compressed before it is sent. But... compared to HTTPS, it's quite a pain to set up, especially on Windows.
For those of you who have used both regularly on large projects...
- Is the performance gain worth the headache of setting up public/private keys for each user, and dealing with other finicky configuration issues?
- Is there even a noticeable performance gain? I haven't seen one on smaller projects.
- Is SSH more secure?
- Would you enforce a policy of using one over the other, or let each developer choose?