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Hg Init: a Mercurial tutorialHg Init: a Mercurial tutorialPosted Feb 25, 2010 8:55 UTC (Thu) by bboissin (subscriber, #29506)In reply to: Hg Init: a Mercurial tutorial by dkrawchuk Parent article: Hg Init: a Mercurial tutorial
In what way does it not handle binary files well, in theory there aren't
many differences in the way they deal with them.
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Hg Init: a Mercurial tutorial Posted Feb 26, 2010 0:46 UTC (Fri) by cortana (subscriber, #24596) [Link]
It handles binary files just fine. It handles *large* files (text or binary) poorly though. Specifically I am referring to the Windows port (msysgit) which tries to compress files before sending them to the server; if it runs out of memory (which it will, since it's only a 32-bit application and so can only address a couple of GiB of RAM) then it dies with a typically obtuse error message.
Hg Init: a Mercurial tutorial Posted Feb 26, 2010 6:43 UTC (Fri) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]
git also has issues with large files.
the point at which a file gets large enough to cause problems (and what the problems are) are obviously different between the two.
Hg Init: a Mercurial tutorial Posted Feb 26, 2010 9:43 UTC (Fri) by cortana (subscriber, #24596) [Link]
Whoops! To clarify, I was referring to Git rather than "it" (hg) :)
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