Large binary files

[Peter Arrenbrecht]

On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 9:21 PM, Inglada <jordi.inglada at orfeo-toolbox.org> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> We have recently moved our code from svn to mercurial and we are very happy
> with it.
>
> However, we have the following problem. Together with the code, we have a
> data set for acceptance and regression testing. It looks like this:
> 1,6G    Baseline
> 567M    Input
> 25G     LargeInput
>
> Il the LargeInput directory we have some binary files which can be larger
> than 2GB (satellite images). We are having trouble in setting up the
> repository, mainly because we use hgweb (some of the developpers are working
> behind a firewall and the only way to access the outside world is through an
> http proxy).
>
> 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)
>
> After that, when pushing data to the server the connection is broken every
> time.
>
> Is there any other way to proceed?

Not overwhelmingly elegant, but seemingly workable for NetBeans:

  http://wiki.netbeans.org/ExternalBinaries

-parren