2GB limit

[Martin Pool]

On 8 October 2010 10:49, jbowtie at amathaine.com <jbowtie at amathaine.com> wrote:
> 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.

No, the warning message is
<https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/bugs/54624>.  (Or do I misunderstand
you?)

Let's not schedule it, just do it!

-- 
Martin