remove unit test data from the source repo

[dirk-thomas]

Test data files (which are more than some kB) do not belong into the source repo (e.g. bag files under rqt_robot_monitor/test). Please move them to an external location (e.g. pr.willowgarage.com/download) and download them using the functions provided by catkin. Also make sure to cleanly remove the related commits from the Git history. Increasing the Git repo by 20 MB forever is not acceptable.

[dirk-thomas]

@130s Please do NOT commit test data like this to the source repo.

I have reverted the Git repo to the state before your commit 70a9abb even is that is inconvenient for users after it has been pushed to public.

[130s]

I see, and thanks for reverting.
Once the new data repo (ros/rosdistro#1614 (comment)) is ready I'll move .bag files there (I found using .bag files very nice for unit testing esp. for GUIs).

Out of curiosity where does "20" MB limit come from? I can't find it on git or github web pages.

[dirk-thomas]

You should not wait for that ticket and deal with it now. There is no ETA on when this will be available and the current infrastructure is absolutely fine.

[130s]

Ok, then how can I upload data to http://pr.willowgarage.com/data/ (I guess that location is what you meant)? I don't seem to find where I can.
DevelopersGuide says https://code.ros.org/gf/project/data is the right place that sounds outdated to me.

[130s]

I asked on answers.

[mikeferguson]

It's not a hard and fast limit -- it's just that every time someone checks out the repo they get that 20mb. Since pr.willowgarage.com is hard to upload to, perhaps you could create a second git repository like rqt_robot_plugins_testdata and put the bag in there, it won't affect users, and you can use github raw urls to access the bagfile.

[dirk-thomas]

GitHub itself does explicitly not recommend doing that.

You can either select a location where the files is available for long-term or let @tfoote or me now and we put it on pr.willowgarage.com. Soon these files will move to a ros.org domain which makes it even easier for us to manage them.