Can anything be done about the large files problem?

[Matt Harbison]

On Wed, 24 Jan 2018 22:21:11 -0500, Matt Harbison <mharbison72 at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> On Wed, 24 Jan 2018 22:12:40 -0500, Andi McClure  
> <andi.m.mcclure at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> That's very exciting, thank you for letting me know! Do you know what  
>> sites
>> it is compatible with (github, bitbucket?)
>
> I haven't tried either.  But it uses the standard git-lfs protocol, so  
> anything that supports git should work.  It doesn't support the verify  
> command, and there's a "guessing the server"[1] protocol for the url  
> that it doesn't use, so pay attention to the example url in the help  
> text when you configure it.
>
> [1]  
> https://github.com/git-lfs/git-lfs/blob/master/docs/api/server-discovery.md

What you will probably need to do is initialize a git repository on the  
hosting site, and then point 'lfs.url' config to that.  Being able to push  
to the hg repo is on my wishlist, but that might require support from the  
hosting site.