On 23/04/2015 01:44, Gregory Szorc wrote:
> 2 files summing to 90 MB of binary data (a Firefox installer) were
> checked into fx-team a few hours ago.
> 
> While Mercurial (and Git) can handle binary files of this size, 
> transferring excessively large files adds overhead to systems and is
> a barrier to contributors on slow connections. We therefore try to
> limit the number of large files checked in to the tree.
> 
> Because the commit was noticed quickly and because it hadn't merged
> to other trees yet, I made the rapid decision (with peer review of
> course) to strip this commit from fx-team and to rebase subsequent
> commits.
> 
> If you pulled fx-team in the past few hours, you should run `hg
> --config extensions.strip= strip -r a3924a37fa0e::` and re-pull so
> your repo is consistent with the server.

How about:
`hg strip --no-backup roots(outgoing())`

Backing up that 90MB is totally not necessary.

Phil

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