Proposed new "big file" extension

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On Oct 4, 4:28 pm, Greg Ward <greg... at gerg.ca> wrote:
>  My view is that it is generally a mistake to put large binary files
> under source control.  It's often done by naive users who think of CVS
> or Subversion as an infinite data store that imposes zero network or
> server load, and who assume that everyone checking out from that
> repository has infinite bandwidth and disk space.

Perhaps some users are naive about this, but it is extremely common to
need to save binary image files in revision control in UI or graphics-
intensive projects and it would be foolish to call it a mistake in
that case. Is a game developer "naive" because he/she wants to put
their images and 3d models under source control? Of course not. Until
Mercurial provides a reasonable approach to big file handling, it
cannot be considered a good choice for many professional, real-world
projects.