How to use Mercurial's LargeFiles extension?

Question

I use Mercurial for game development, and I\'m trying to use the LargeFiles extension included in Mercurial 2.0 to keep track of large binary assets. Unfortunately there isn\'t

Answer 1

I'm just posting this for anyone else coming into the thread from a search.

There's currently an issue using the largefiles extension in the mercurial python module when hosted via IIS. See this post if you're encountering issues pushing large changesets (or large files) to IIS via TortoiseHg.

The problem ultimlately turns out to be a bug in SSL processing introduced in Python 2.7.3 (probably explaining why there are so many unresolve posts of people looking for problems with Mercurial). Rolling back to Python 2.7.2 let me get a little further ahead (blocked at 30Mb pushes instead of 15Mb), but to properly solve the problem I had to install the IISCrypto utility to completely disable transfers over SSLv2.