warning message when adding large files

Matt Mackall mpm at selenic.com
Thu Mar 31 13:08:05 CDT 2011


On Thu, 2011-03-31 at 01:50 -0400, Cathy Riemer wrote:
> I added a large file to my repository with "hg add", and received
> the following warning message:
> 
>   foo.txt: up to 896 MB of RAM may be required to manage this file
>   (use 'hg revert foo.txt' to cancel the pending addition)
> 
> I don't understand why it suggests using "revert".  Shouldn't that
> be "forget"?

They'll both give the same result, moving the file from added to
unknown.

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