From 4cfcdfa9ba1f88e7aa9a6e7878cd86a2705541ab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joey Hess Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2011 14:20:11 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] mention mercurial bfiles extn --- doc/not.mdwn | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/not.mdwn b/doc/not.mdwn index fe6e1b37d9..1d38b848c6 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). +