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

Matt Mackall mpm at selenic.com
Thu Aug 11 12:26:10 CDT 2011


On Wed, 2011-08-10 at 22:03 -0400, Greg Ward wrote:
> 6) It would be nice to make migration from bfiles painless and transparent.
>    My first suggestion: make the '.hglf' prefix configurable. Then bfiles
>    users can just set it to .hgbfiles and not have to go through a painful
>    repository conversion just to remap the standin filenames.

I'd rather not have a config option if we can avoid it. Perhaps an
automatic fallback?

>    (Hey, has anyone else noticed that '.hglf' looks like 'mercurial linefeed'?
>    I hope this doesn't get confused with eol...)

Yeah, that's a bit odd.

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