Issues using mq on large projects

[solo turn]

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 ....