> You basically trade the ability to have diffs (nearly meaningless on binary files anyway) for representing large files as their SHA-256 equivalent values on a

> You basically trade the ability to have diffs (nearly meaningless on binary files anyway) for representing large files as their SHA-256 equivalent values on a remote server. That's exactly how Mercurial's largefiles works too: http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/LargefilesExtension#The_local_store http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/LargefilesExtension#The_lo... Also, you don't need any kind of special server. Any hg repo can turn into a largefiles store by just flipping the bit in the repo configuration.