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[Bryan O'Sullivan]

On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 21:40 +0100, Mads Kiilerich wrote:

> I fail to understand why we have "everything is binary", but at the same 
> time we try to store file revisions as textual deltas,

File revisions are stored as binary deltas.

>  we have 
> first-class functions to show diffs to users, we automagically attempt 
> to merge files which "seems" to be text etc.

File merging is handled by external programs.  Mercurial doesn't know or
care whether files are text or not.

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