author | Pierre-Yves David <pierre-yves.david@ens-lyon.org> |
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# Copyright 2009-2010 Gregory P. Ward |
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# Copyright 2009-2010 Intelerad Medical Systems Incorporated |
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# Copyright 2010-2011 Fog Creek Software |
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# Copyright 2010-2011 Unity Technologies |
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# This software may be used and distributed according to the terms of the |
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# GNU General Public License version 2 or any later version. |
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'''track large binary files |
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Large binary files tend to be not very compressible, not very |
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diffable, and not at all mergeable. Such files are not handled |
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efficiently by Mercurial's storage format (revlog), which is based on |
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compressed binary deltas; storing large binary files as regular |
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Mercurial files wastes bandwidth and disk space and increases |
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Mercurial's memory usage. The largefiles extension addresses these |
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problems by adding a centralized client-server layer on top of |
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Mercurial: largefiles live in a *central store* out on the network |
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somewhere, and you only fetch the revisions that you need when you |
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need them. |
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largefiles works by maintaining a "standin file" in .hglf/ for each |
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largefile. The standins are small (41 bytes: an SHA-1 hash plus |
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newline) and are tracked by Mercurial. Largefile revisions are |
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identified by the SHA-1 hash of their contents, which is written to |
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the standin. largefiles uses that revision ID to get/put largefile |
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revisions from/to the central store. This saves both disk space and |
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bandwidth, since you don't need to retrieve all historical revisions |
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of large files when you clone or pull. |
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To start a new repository or add new large binary files, just add |
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--large to your :hg:`add` command. For example:: |
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$ dd if=/dev/urandom of=randomdata count=2000 |
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$ hg add --large randomdata |
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$ hg commit -m 'add randomdata as a largefile' |
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When you push a changeset that adds/modifies largefiles to a remote |
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repository, its largefile revisions will be uploaded along with it. |
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Note that the remote Mercurial must also have the largefiles extension |
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enabled for this to work. |
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When you pull a changeset that affects largefiles from a remote |
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repository, Mercurial behaves as normal. However, when you update to |
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such a revision, any largefiles needed by that revision are downloaded |
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and cached (if they have never been downloaded before). This means |
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that network access may be required to update to changesets you have |
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not previously updated to. |
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If you already have large files tracked by Mercurial without the |
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largefiles extension, you will need to convert your repository in |
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order to benefit from largefiles. This is done with the |
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:hg:`lfconvert` command:: |
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$ hg lfconvert --size 10 oldrepo newrepo |
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In repositories that already have largefiles in them, any new file |
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over 10MB will automatically be added as a largefile. To change this |
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threshold, set ``largefiles.minsize`` in your Mercurial config file |
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to the minimum size in megabytes to track as a largefile, or use the |
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--lfsize option to the add command (also in megabytes):: |
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minsize = 2 |
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$ hg add --lfsize 2 |
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The ``largefiles.patterns`` config option allows you to specify a list |
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of filename patterns (see :hg:`help patterns`) that should always be |
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tracked as largefiles:: |
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[largefiles] |
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patterns = |
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*.jpg |
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re:.*\.(png|bmp)$ |
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library.zip |
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content/audio/* |
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Files that match one of these patterns will be added as largefiles |
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regardless of their size. |
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The ``largefiles.minsize`` and ``largefiles.patterns`` config options |
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will be ignored for any repositories not already containing a |
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largefile. To add the first largefile to a repository, you must |
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explicitly do so with the --large flag passed to the :hg:`add` |
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command. |
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from mercurial import commands |
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import lfcommands |
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import reposetup |
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import uisetup |
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reposetup = reposetup.reposetup |
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uisetup = uisetup.uisetup |
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commands.norepo += " lfconvert" |
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cmdtable = lfcommands.cmdtable |