Adding very large text files is treated as binary

[Matt Mackall]

On Mon, 2009-11-30 at 01:44 +0100, Trond Olsen wrote:
> Is there a way to force very large text files to not be treated as
> binary files?

First, Mercurial does not make an internal distinction between text and
binary files: all files are considered 'binary' internally. It only
distinguishes text from binary when outputting textual diffs and similar
operations.

Second, binary detection is based solely on the presence of NUL
characters in a file, not on length. Binary detection can generally be
disabled with the -a option to diff.

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