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[wcoenen]

Another option available since Mercurial 1.5 is to put the large files in a subversion repository and reference it as a subrepository.

http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/Subrepository#SVN_subrepos...

[gecko → wcoenen]

That options work fine, provided that all of your binary assets sit at one location in the tree, and that you just happen to have a Subversion server lying around at the time. largefiles allows you to put your assets where you want, and allows you to avoid setting up a Subversion server.