Non-text based files

[Arne Babenhauserheide]

Hi Diederik, 

The bigfiles extension might be right for you. 

It seems we don't yet have a wiki entry for it, so here's the link to the 
announcement E-Mail: 

- http://www.selenic.com/pipermail/mercurial/2008-October/021919.html

It tracks versions of bigfiles (via sha1), but stores the data as version 
snapshots in another location. 


I currently don't know about an extension, which allows you to store only the 
hashes but no data at all. It shouldn't be too hard to write, though. 

You could even archive that by simply telling Mercuiral to ignore files with 
certain suffixes (.hgignore) and adding a precommit-hook which updates a file 
with the hashes of these files. 

Best wishes, 
Arne

Am Montag 02 März 2009 10:52:24 schrieb Diederik Kruger:
> Hi Arne,
> That's correct. I will still add comments of what was changed, but no
> content must be tracked.
>
> Thanks for the speedy reply.
>
> Diederik
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: arne_bab at web.de [mailto:arne_bab at web.de]
> Sent: 02 March 2009 10:47 AM
> To: mercurial at selenic.com
> Cc: Diederik Kruger
> Subject: Re: Non-text based files
>
> Am Montag 02 März 2009 08:42:01 schrieb Diederik Kruger:
> > 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?
>
> Do you mean you don't want to track the content of the hardware files but
> only get the information if they changed?
>
> Best wishes,
> Arne
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