LFS storage can be use with mercurial type repository?

[evgeniikim]

We used mercurial and content include graphic materials also. Whether we can use LFS for this purpose with mercurial?

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[Ana Retamal · Accepted solution]

Hi Eugene! LFS is a git feature, so you won't be able to use it for a mercurial repository. For more information about Git LFS you can read Git large file storage and Use Git LFS with Bitbucket.

Let us know if you have any other questions!

Ana

[evgeniikim]

Thanks!

What do you have for a mercurial for storage of the mixed contents ? Additional space over 2gb for large files (jpg, png, etc...). Thanks.

[Ana Retamal]

Hi Eugene, the maximum size per repository is 2GB and it's not possible to increase it. If you have large files as part of your repo, such as binary files or executables, DVCS systems won't be good candidates for storing them:

Large binary files tend to be not very compressible, not very "diffable", and not at all mergeable. Such files are not handled well by Mercurial's storage format (Revlog), which is based on compressed binary deltas.

We'd recommend to look into file hosting services such as DropBox, rsync, rsnapshot, rdiff-backup, and so forth. 

There's a feature within Mercurial to use Large files, but even by then is only recommended to use it as a last resort. You can learn more about it at Large files Extension. This feature is still not supported by Bitbucket, but there's a Feature request for that at Largefiles support for Mercurial.

Hope that helps!

Ana