TLDR; Large binary assets are handled poorly by Git/Mercurial. I too have been bitten hard by this. Being a mercurial user, I tried large-file-extensions but

TLDR; Large binary assets are handled poorly by Git/Mercurial. I too have been bitten hard by this. Being a mercurial user, I tried large-file-extensions but on a team this leads to file corruption/non-synchronization too often to be practical. The most practical "solution" I've found is to actually ignore the issue. When your repository gets too bloated, start a new one.