Can anything be done about the large files problem?

[Matt Harbison]

On Mon, 13 Nov 2017 21:20:54 -0500, Matt Harbison <mharbison72 at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> On Sat, 11 Nov 2017 15:00:13 -0500, Andi McClure  
> <andi.m.mcclure at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> I do notice this page proposing Mercurial support for the git LFS  
>> protocol
>> exists on the wiki: [ https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/LfsPlan ] and  
>> is
>> being regularly updated, but that page does not make clear either the
>> intended timeline, or whether or not Bitbucket is on board (would  
>> Bitbucket
>> *need* to be on board?). Does anyone know, if I’m interested in taking
>> advantage of the “LFS plan” described there, when that will be  
>> practically
>> possible (assuming part of what I consider "practically possible" is
>> support by a hosting provider I can trust as much as I trust Bitbucket  
>> or
>> Github)?
>>
>> Thanks.

Not sure if you're still interested, but the extension is now bundled in  
the 4.5 release candidate that was cut the other day.  It's a work in  
progress, and various bits of functionality still need to be implemented,  
but it is very usable.