Non-text based files

[Peter Weseloh]

2009/3/2 Diederik Kruger <dkruger at sse.co.za>

>  I’m currently evaluating Mercurial for use in our company’s development
> department as our defacto version control system. However, we are a good mix
> of hardware and software engineers and our hardware development files are
> not text based at all. How can I still incorporate them into Mercurial, but
> ignore doing merges when changing files, but still show the files that
> changed on the repository history?
>
If the binary files can be identified via a pattern (e.g. *.bin) you could
maybe define your own merge tool that does whatever you want with them. See
http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/MergeToolConfiguration for a
description.

Regards,
Peter
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