2GB limit

[jbowtie at amathaine.com]

On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 12:37 PM, Martin Pool <mbp at canonical.com> wrote:
>> 1. How soon is bug 109114 [https://bugs.launchpad.net/bzr/+bug/109114]
>> likely to get attention from Canonical?
>
> It's not something our internal stakeholders are hitting so far,
> because we just don't tend to deal with trees with single enormous
> files.  We do deal with enormous trees and John and others have done
> some work on memory usage there, with good results.
>

...snip...

> I think you could use a precommit hook to check this, and there is a
> bug asking for a builtin feature to warn about committing large files.
>  I think that would be quite useful, even if we had no size limits at
> all.
>

Martin, you might not have noticed, but that's the *same bug*. Surely
a warning message could be part of the 2.3 roadmap?

I also think we should put a fairly prominent warning in the user
guide about "large files" as a courtesy.