«large» files.

[Matt Harbison]

On Wed, 20 Apr 2016 09:03:42 -0400, Uwe Brauer <oub at mat.ucm.es> wrote:

> hello
>
> I am using hg 3.0.1 and want to put _all_ files of a project under hg
> control.
>
> I have the largefile extension enabled. The directory in question
> contains some «large» files, the largest a pdf file  being 17 M of size.
>
> Now when running
>
> hg add  largefile.pdf
>
> I obtain
>
> largefile.pdf: up to 51 MB of RAM may be required to manage this file
> (use 'hg revert largefile.pdf' to cancel the pending addition)

Be aware that you didn't add this as a largefile if you see this warning.   
You need to add a file with --large before any name or size based settings  
you may have setup will be honored.

> The machine in question is a server (with Kubuntu 10.04) which only as  
> 1.5 G of RAM, but no
> active users.
>
> So the question is: is this message harmful or not?
>
> thanks
>
> Uwe Brauer
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