Issues using mq on large projects

[Matt Mackall]

On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 10:36:53PM +0100, solo turn wrote:
> On 3/4/07, Alexis S. L. Carvalho <alexis at cecm.usp.br> wrote:
> >Thus spake L. David Baron:
> >>  (4) Binary files in patches end up getting dropped (as a consequence of
> >>      the patch storage mechanism).
> >
> >Putting something like this in ~/.hgrc should fix this:
> >
> >[defaults]
> >qrefresh = --git
> 
> above the anser was:
> [diff]
> git=1
> 
> what is the better one? or why there are two things for the same
> problem? seems complicated ....

One sets all diffs to use git-style patches, the other sets only
qrefresh to use them.

As git-style patches are not backward-compatible with patch (and
rather ugly to boot), we don't use them by default.

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