Status with Largefile Extension

[Smith, Bill (Tridium)]

We have a case where we actually need to store win32 binaries in a mercurial 
repo. We are currently doing this with the largefile extension. One problem we 
have encountered is that there are a couple of *metadata* fields that the ms 
compiler changes (like a timestamp) with each compile even if nothing has 
really changed. They supply a utility called bindiff that can be used to 
identify if the file has really changed. I created an extension that uses the 
repo.status() call to identify the modified files. However, this only appears 
to work with regular repos, not large file repos. Looking at 
hgext/largefiles/reposetup.py, it appears that the call to status *should* be 
routed through the override, however, it doesn't appear that that is 
happening. I've added my command in my extensions with:

  'tbindiff': (tbindiff,
              [('r', 'revert', None, _('revert unchanged binaries'), 
_('PATH')),],
            _('hg tbindiff [-r | --revert]')),

And tbindiff does:

def tbindiff(ui, repo, *pats, **opts):
    try:
      repo.lfstatus
      print 'large file repo'
    except:
      print 'standard repo'

    print repo.status()[0]

The output of the last line is correct for regular repos, but not large file 
repos.

Any thoughts or advice?

Bill


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