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How do I use the Mercurial LargeFiles Extension?

I just read that Kiln 2.9 includes support for the Mercurial LargeFiles extension and this is replacing the older KBFiles extension. Does this mean I have to convert my repositori …
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Why is it bad to store binary files in Mercurial?

In a number of places, documentation and users have indicated that Mercurial does not handle binary files well. Some of the issues revolve around the size of a binary file (over 10 …
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Support online diff of Docx files [closed]

Possible Duplicate: Feature Request: Ability to force Kiln to treat specific file types as text regardless of encoding We have quite a few Word DOCX files in kiln. While …
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Feature Request: Ability to force Kiln to treat specific file types as text regardless of encoding

Kiln sometimes shows my text files as binary, specifically .sql files. I read on this site that the reason is that files that are encoded in UTF-16 or UTF-32 are marked as binary b …
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kbfiles extension in 2.0

I can't figure out how to install the kbfiles extension included with 2.0 Beta (2.0.7.0). I downloaded the zip file of the extensions, but bfiles is a directory with kbfiles in th …
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Can binary files be converted automatically before they are handled by Mercurial?

I have a bunch of binary files that have to stay in this format in the working copy. For version control it would be better to have them in some text format. I have a utility to …
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Handling Support DLLs for components etc in Visual Studio

What's the best method for handling support DLLs like visual components etc? I'm reading it's really not recommended that these be stored in the repo. So I come along and clone do …
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“Binary” files that aren’t [closed]

Possible Duplicate: Diff of some files (such as .sql) on the changeset page is showing them as binary According to my brief research after encountering this problem, Mercu …
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Using Mercurial with proprietary binary files?

Just read the intro to Hg for SVN users, and I like what I see. Newbie question alert. How does this work with binary files? At the office we use SVN to manage both hardware & …
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Does Kiln support mercurial’s BigFile extension?

I am storing video game assets as well as source code in my repo. Large binary files and mercurial traditionally don't get along. However, the Bigfiles extension attempts to addr …
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Add fail: ‘bfiles_repo’ object has no attribute ‘rjoin’

ruh roh. Using Fogbugz On Demand. Trying to add (binary) files to an existing repo which is mostly binary files too. What broke? Should I try to fix it or just ditch the repo and …
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bfiles estimated date

Hello, My company considers moving our repositories to Kiln. The problem is that we've got lots of binary files. From what I found, bfiles mercurial extension is planned to be int …
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Text files being saved as binary [closed]

Possible Duplicate: “Binary” files that aren’t I have a bunch of text files with SQL queries. When I use Hg Commit (integrated into the Vista directory l …
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Is there a way to exclude binaries from Code Review in Kiln?

I learned that I can use the .kilnignore to ignore files from the code review case. Is there a way to exclude all binaries from code review? Thank you.