Should we have a hook to catch this kind of thing?

-Jeff

On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 1:44 PM, Gregory Szorc <g...@mozilla.com> 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.
>
> Bug 1157353 tracks any remaining cleanup.
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