How much is Bitbucket largefiles support worth to you?

[Augie Fackler]

(+mads for largefiles thoughts)

On Tue, Feb 09, 2016 at 02:17:08PM -0800, Sean Farley wrote:
> It should be apparent by now that we're working on Git LFS[1] support
> for Bitbucket. For those that use largefiles, this should be good news.
> I've tried to latch onto the work a teammate is doing for Git LFS but
> unfortunately hit a roadblock.
>
> The gist is that we need to send a url to the client to tell it where to
> upload the largefiles. This could almost be hacked in with http
> redirection but SSH wouldn't be able to use that.
>
> Instead, I was going to ask the Mercurial community if someone could
> implement this type of redirection (keeping authentication in mind). If
> this happened, I could implement the server-side code to work with this.
> Theoretically, a user could optionally use some other kind of backend
> for the largefiles and still use Bitbucket for code hosting.

I'm not a largefiles user, so bear with me. It sounds like the main
(mercurial) server wants to be able to specify an alternate address
(possibly also including protocol) for the largefiles operations,
right?

Any reason we can't add a pushkey entry for that, and just have modern
clients know to check with the server for an advisory alternate
largefiles URL? Sean, would that solve your needs?

> Another option for this is to get a student for GSoC to do this.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> [1] https://git-lfs.github.com
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