[PATCH 1 of 3] lfs: always exclude '.hg*' text files

[Augie Fackler]

> On Jan 20, 2018, at 02:43, Jun Wu <quark at fb.com> wrote:
> 
> Excerpts from Yuya Nishihara's message of 2018-01-15 21:56:49 +0900:
>> Seems fine. Queued, thanks.
>> 
>> CC-ed Jun since I'm not pretty sure if this is considered a nice feature.
> 
> It is considered as a nice feature. For example:
> 
>  - If the LFS server hostname expires, it's possible to "revive" dead links
>    without rewriting hashes.
>  - It's possible to convert old normal large files to LFS, to save server's
>    disk space, without triggering integrity check errors client-side.
> 
> IIRC, mpm said lfs has a better design than largefiles. I *guess* the hash
> preserving behavior is one of the things that make it better.

IMO that's a killer feature compared to largefiles.

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