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authorGravatar Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2011-03-08 14:20:11 -0400
committerGravatar Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2011-03-08 14:20:11 -0400
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mention mercurial bfiles extn
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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).
+