Re: Hg for “Source Code” only?

[Augie Fackler]

On Apr 19, 2014, at 6:14 AM, Pietro Moras <studio-pm at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Mercurial defines itself precisely as a “Source Code Management System” [see:  Mercurial Command Reference] instead of, say, as a more usual, and generic, “Version Control System”. Fine. 
> I wander if “Source Code” is here to be intended as a precise scope delimitation, that is “any collection of computer instructions (possibly with comments) written using some human-readable computer language, usually as plain text” only. Or not...

Mercurial works just fine on all sorts of formats, merging just tends to not work as well for opaque binary formats. I've used it successfully on images and word docs, albeit without ever trying to merge those formats (which I suspect would end in frustration.)

> Thanks. 
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