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Slaughterhouse 1.9: How I Learned to Love Contributing to Mercurial

by kevingessner on 7/14/11, 7:46 PM with 2 comments

• by shaggyfrog on 7/14/11, 8:20 PM

  "Finally, we discussed bringing one of Kiln’s major features—kbfiles—into Mercurial as an official feature. kbfiles enables you to track the history of large files (like images, libraries, and executables) in your Mercurial repository, without keeping a copy of every version of every file on your computer."

  Looking forward to hearing more about this, and hopefully a similar feature makes its way into Git. Poor handling of large files is one of the main drawbacks to using DVCSs in many kinds of workflows.