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Re:What does SVN do better than git? by andrewflnr on Saturday November 16, 2013 @03:22PM (#6746294)
How does mercurial do in that situation? I know it uses a binary diff algorithm under the hood, but are there other showstoppers for storing giant files in mercurial?
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Re:What does SVN do better than git? by aardvark179 on Saturday November 16, 2013 @03:39PM (#6746341)
They don't store well as compressed binary diffs, and they can cause high memory consumption during various operations. If you absolutely must store large binary files then there's a large files extension.
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Re:What does SVN do better than git? by e12e on Saturday November 16, 2013 @04:05PM (#6746434)
The largefiles extention is now bundled with mercurial (since 2.0):

http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/LargefilesExtension

[edit: this isn't quite a solution, more of a work around -- but one that can be expected to be installed by default.]

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