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| author |  Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2011-03-08 14:20:11 -0400 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2011-03-08 14:20:11 -0400 |
| commit | 4cfcdfa9ba1f88e7aa9a6e7878cd86a2705541ab (patch) | |
| tree | 6b3e35cab2fda3a7da6d4d8b3fb351423bfb485f | |
| parent | cd02f05eb11fd6a8eff345c76deeed6c378cc2af (diff) | |
mention mercurial bfiles extn
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/not.mdwn | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/not.mdwn b/doc/not.mdwn index fe6e1b37d..1d38b848c 100644 --- a/doc/not.mdwn +++ b/doc/not.mdwn @@ -38,3 +38,9 @@ it does not support keeping different files in different clones of the same repository, which git-annex does, and is an important feature for large-scale archiving. + +* git-annex is not the [Mercurial bfiles extension](http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/BfilesExtension). + Although mercurial and git have some of the same problems around large + files, and both try to solve them in similar ways (standin files using + mostly hashes of the real content). + |