Gateway time out in Mercurial

Question

When using mercurial to commit, I first get this error

files over 10MB may cause memory and performance problems

and then when finally try to push , I get a a gateway timeout

>hg push
http authorization required
realm: Bitbucket.org HTTP
user: kunjaan
password:
pushing to *
searching for changes
abort: HTTP Error 504: Gateway Time-out

Can anyone help me resolve the problem?

Answer 1

Mercurial is not really made for adding such large files, have a look at http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/HandlingLargeFiles. There are two extensions linked on that page, that version the files but don't save them to the repository. I have no experience with them, but searching for it should give you more information.