Tracking and managing history of a large directory of binary files

[Matt Mackall]

On Tue, 2014-02-18 at 10:04 +0000, Paul Moore wrote:
> First of all, it's entirely possible that Mercurial is completely the
> wrong tool for this, but I don't know of any better one. If what I am
> doing is totally misguided, can anyone suggest a better solution[1]?
> 
> I have a large directory (about 3GB) of binary files (mostly small,
> but some up to 50M in size) that I need to manage across multiple PCs.

This lays out the memory limitations of Mercurial for single files.

http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/HandlingLargeFiles

Shorter version:

32-bit: ~400MB (Windows) ~1GB Linux
64-bit: 2GB

But Mercurial will happily handle 100,000 of those 400MB files, each
with 100,000 revisions, provided you have the disk space and bandwidth.

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