The repo still grows and grows with every commit of a binary file. I don't
fully understand this definition?

binary-glob --> The VALUE is a comma or newline-separated list of (versionable)
GLOB patterns that should be treated as binary files for committing and
merging purposes. Example: *.jpg

​Adding *.pdf to the above list means what exactly in terms of repo storage?

On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 6:50 PM, Christopher M. Fuhrman <cfuhr...@pobox.com>
wrote:

> Howdy,
>
> On Tue, 28 Jul 2015 at 3:43pm, Paolo Bolzoni wrote:
>
> > Dear list,
> >
> > I am writing a pdf document using LaTeX, since some of the readers
> > have problems compiling I'd like to keep also the .pdf under revision
> > control.
> >
> > The .pdf is actually a binary output of other files, so it should be
> > ignored during merge conflicts. I know this violated the basics of a
> > scm, but it is possible to tell the repository to treat some file
> > differently and do not try to merge them, but simply replace?
>
> I believe doing this:
>
>   $ fossil settings binary-glob "*.pdf"
>
> would work.  Probably better to do it from the web ui in case there are
> other values present in that setting.
>
> Cheers!
>
> >
> > Your faithfully,
> > Paolo
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