# Copyright 2009-2010 Gregory P. Ward # Copyright 2009-2010 Intelerad Medical Systems Incorporated # Copyright 2010-2011 Fog Creek Software # Copyright 2010-2011 Unity Technologies # # This software may be used and distributed according to the terms of the # GNU General Public License version 2 or any later version. '''track large binary files Large binary files tend to be not very compressible, not very diffable, and not at all mergeable. Such files are not handled efficiently by Mercurial's storage format (revlog), which is based on compressed binary deltas; storing large binary files as regular Mercurial files wastes bandwidth and disk space and increases Mercurial's memory usage. The largefiles extension addresses these problems by adding a centralized client-server layer on top of Mercurial: largefiles live in a *central store* out on the network somewhere, and you only fetch the revisions that you need when you need them. largefiles works by maintaining a "standin file" in .hglf/ for each largefile. The standins are small (41 bytes: an SHA-1 hash plus newline) and are tracked by Mercurial. Largefile revisions are identified by the SHA-1 hash of their contents, which is written to the standin. largefiles uses that revision ID to get/put largefile revisions from/to the central store. This saves both disk space and bandwidth, since you don't need to retrieve all historical revisions of large files when you clone or pull. To start a new repository or add new large binary files, just add --large to your :hg:`add` command. For example:: $ dd if=/dev/urandom of=randomdata count=2000 $ hg add --large randomdata $ hg commit -m 'add randomdata as a largefile' When you push a changeset that adds/modifies largefiles to a remote repository, its largefile revisions will be uploaded along with it. Note that the remote Mercurial must also have the largefiles extension enabled for this to work. When you pull a changeset that affects largefiles from a remote repository, the largefiles for the changeset will by default not be pulled down. However, when you update to such a revision, any largefiles needed by that revision are downloaded and cached (if they have never been downloaded before). One way to pull largefiles when pulling is thus to use --update, which will update your working copy to the latest pulled revision (and thereby downloading any new largefiles). If you want to pull largefiles you don't need for update yet, then you can use pull with the `--lfrev` option or the :hg:`lfpull` command. If you know you are pulling from a non-default location and want to download all the largefiles that correspond to the new changesets at the same time, then you can pull with `--lfrev "pulled()"`. If you just want to ensure that you will have the largefiles needed to merge or rebase with new heads that you are pulling, then you can pull with `--lfrev "head(pulled())"` flag to pre-emptively download any largefiles that are new in the heads you are pulling. Keep in mind that network access may now be required to update to changesets that you have not previously updated to. The nature of the largefiles extension means that updating is no longer guaranteed to be a local-only operation. If you already have large files tracked by Mercurial without the largefiles extension, you will need to convert your repository in order to benefit from largefiles. This is done with the :hg:`lfconvert` command:: $ hg lfconvert --size 10 oldrepo newrepo In repositories that already have largefiles in them, any new file over 10MB will automatically be added as a largefile. To change this threshold, set ``largefiles.minsize`` in your Mercurial config file to the minimum size in megabytes to track as a largefile, or use the --lfsize option to the add command (also in megabytes):: [largefiles] minsize = 2 $ hg add --lfsize 2 The ``largefiles.patterns`` config option allows you to specify a list of filename patterns (see :hg:`help patterns`) that should always be tracked as largefiles:: [largefiles] patterns = *.jpg re:.*\.(png|bmp)$ library.zip content/audio/* Files that match one of these patterns will be added as largefiles regardless of their size. The ``largefiles.minsize`` and ``largefiles.patterns`` config options will be ignored for any repositories not already containing a largefile. To add the first largefile to a repository, you must explicitly do so with the --large flag passed to the :hg:`add` command. ''' from mercurial import commands import lfcommands import reposetup import uisetup testedwith = 'internal' reposetup = reposetup.reposetup uisetup = uisetup.uisetup commands.norepo += " lfconvert" cmdtable = lfcommands.cmdtable