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Greg Ward and some others are working on it with the bfiles extension for Mercurial. It's a work in progress but at least it's getting the ball rolling: http:/

• ableal 17y ago
  Thank you very much. I liked what I read in the design doc (http://vc.gerg.ca/hg/hg-bfiles/raw-file/tip/design.txt http://vc.gerg.ca/hg/hg-bfiles/raw-file/tip/design.txt), which seems to be trying to automatically do the best thing possible under the hg constraints. It's interesting that the names are "Distributed Version Control Systems", or "Revision Control", but the ghost of the word "source" (meaning code text, in 1972's SCCS) is still read into it. Surprisingly, when DVCS are shouted as the bees' knees for everybody, people who have images, documents and data may think they were included. Apparently not, those benighted heathens should use rsync or whatever manually, and not soil the "source control" systems with their binaries. Or go find not-included plug-ins, if they can. (Those people are apparently too dumb to understand that a binary "artifact" produced with an image editor, spreadsheet, or data analysis tool is fundamentally different from a blessed code file written with a text editor, and thus is not entitled to be under real version control, or have a DCVS tool automatically do something smart about it.) The Perforce guys must be laughing their asses off.