Large binary files

[Martin Geisler]

Inglada <jordi.inglada at orfeo-toolbox.org> writes:

> First of all, when adding large files, we get this kind of annoying
> message:
>
> Input/couleurs.tif: files over 10MB may cause memory and performance
> problems (use 'hg revert Input/couleurs.tif' to unadd the file)

There is a patch here which allows you to disable the warning:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.mercurial.general/9391

The point of the patch is that Mercurial needs something like 2*filesize
of RAM to deal with a file, and so it may not be possible to work with a
repository containing large files on a small computer.

With the filesizes you mention (2 GB satelite photos) I doubt your
machines lack RAM :-) so you might want to apply the patch and disable
the warning.

-- 
Martin Geisler

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