How to use Mercurial's LargeFiles extension?

Question

I use Mercurial for game development, and I\'m trying to use the LargeFiles extension included in Mercurial 2.0 to keep track of large binary assets. Unfortunately there isn\'t

Answer 1

I don't have any guidance on how to safely clean out the .hg/largefiles directory.

Largefiles Store

The largefiles store seems to be stored, by default, at the one of following locations:

Windows: C:\Users\Username\AppData\Local\largefiles

OSX: /Users/username/Library/Caches/largefiles

Linux: (This is my best guess)

• /home/username/largefiles
• or /home/username/.cache/largefiles

User Configured:

This, however, can be changed in the global settings file using the usercache setting as follows:

[largefiles]
usercache = c:\path\to\largefiles\cache\

Note: This is not documented yet. This makes me wonder if it is subject to change.

Sources:

• Largefiles Extension Documentation
• User cache paths - https://www.mercurial-scm.org/repo/hg/file/41453d55b481/hgext/largefiles/lfutil.py (lines 84-103)
• Undocumented largefiles.usercache setting - https://bz.mercurial-scm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3088