[RFC] kbfiles: an extension to track binary files with less wasted bandwidth

[Chris Cannam]

On 10 August 2011 21:00, Andrew Pritchard <awpritchard at gmail.com> wrote:
> After a lot of refactoring and bugfixing, as well as plenty of naming
> and copyright concerns, it now seems that largefiles is nearly ready
> to be added to the Mercurial core repository as a bundled extension.

Is there a short introduction anywhere from which we can learn how to
test this?  If not, can you summarise here?

I'm very interested in using this extension, but the documentation
doesn't seem quite enough even for a sympathetic tester like me -- for
example, the help text points at a usage.txt file that doesn't exist
and gives a canonical URL for it that doesn't resolve; "help
lfconvert" points to the lfput command which also appears not to
exist; and design.txt (the only apparent documentation outside the
code) still refers to bfiles throughout.

(I've never used bfiles either, for what it's worth -- I don't know
whether that's likely to be good or bad in learning about this one.)


Chris