[PATCH bfiles] bfupdate: detect big files where only the execute bit needs updating

Matt Mackall mpm at selenic.com
Tue Jul 12 17:36:47 CDT 2011


On Tue, 2011-07-12 at 13:16 +0100, Geoff Crossland wrote:
> (Resending with correct account details - sorry if you end up with a 
> dupe message)
> 
> On 06/07/11 11:15, Mads Kiilerich wrote:
> > The bfiles extension is not maintained by the Mercurial developers, so
> > you might want to address the maintainer by other means than this
> > mailing list.
> 
> Greg Ward's last-known recommendation for bfiles patches was to 
> patchbomb this list (though there haven't been any for a few months and 
> so he may have unsubscribed), but I'll try to contact him elsewhere if 
> this fails.

The talk at the last sprint was that Kiln's 'kbfiles' was the heir
apparent for the big files space. Hopefully we'll see some work towards
making it acceptable for bundling with Mercurial itself.

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