[CALUG] Mercurial appropriate for Tomboy and documents?

[Jim Bauer]

On 07/17/2010 09:59 AM, Dave Dodge wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 10:52:50PM -0400, P Yasuda wrote:
>> I'm thinking of installing Mercurial distributed source control
>> management tool. Would it work for my Tomboy notes directory?
>
> It should work for documentation, though it's best for diff/merge
> purposes if the file format being managed is text-based.

Don't know about Mercurial and binaries, but Git can be convinced to 
diff binary files in a way that you may find useful.  See the "Diffing 
Binary Files" section at http://progit.org/book/ch7-2.html