From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@bfk.de>
To: Petko Manolov <petkan@nucleusys.com>
Cc: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>,
Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git and binary files
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:41:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <82r6gh9104.fsf@mid.bfk.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0801161640010.5260@bender.nucleusys.com> (Petko Manolov's message of "Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:43:09 +0200 (EET)")
* Petko Manolov:
>>> Unfortunately this is not the case. These binary blobs are already
>>> compressed and/or encrypted and adding even a few bytes ends up storing
>>> new version in full size.
>>
>> Can't you store them uncompressed?
>
> Not really, but i can convert them into ascii format and store only
> the delta. This will admittedly increase the initial size of the
> repository, but hopefully not by much.
If the encryption is halfway decent, a new IV/nonce will be chosen for
each new revision, and you can't tell that two ciphertexts share a
common prefix without fully decrypting them.
--
Florian Weimer <fweimer@bfk.de>
BFK edv-consulting GmbH http://www.bfk.de/
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-16 16:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-16 10:34 git and binary files Petko Manolov
2008-01-16 10:54 ` David Symonds
2008-01-16 13:21 ` Petko Manolov
2008-01-16 13:42 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-01-16 13:58 ` Petko Manolov
2008-01-16 14:07 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-01-16 14:21 ` Petko Manolov
2008-01-16 14:34 ` Wincent Colaiuta
2008-01-16 14:45 ` Petko Manolov
2008-01-16 18:02 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-01-16 18:09 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-01-16 11:54 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-01-16 13:39 ` Petko Manolov
2008-01-16 13:53 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-01-16 14:04 ` Petko Manolov
2008-01-16 14:20 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-01-16 14:43 ` Petko Manolov
2008-01-16 15:01 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-01-16 15:18 ` Petko Manolov
2008-01-16 15:58 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-01-16 16:06 ` Petko Manolov
2008-01-16 16:09 ` Petko Manolov
2008-01-16 16:34 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-01-16 16:41 ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2008-01-16 13:54 ` Jeff King
2008-01-16 14:14 ` Petko Manolov
2008-01-16 14:18 ` Jeff King
2008-01-16 14:25 ` Petko Manolov
2008-01-16 14:32 ` Jeff King
2008-01-16 14:39 ` Petko Manolov
2008-01-16 15:05 ` Rogan Dawes
2008-01-18 6:52 ` David Brown
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-07-28 14:17 Jan Dittmer
2010-07-28 14:29 ` Matthieu Moy
2010-07-28 20:17 ` Avery Pennarun
2011-04-28 15:11 Git and Binary Files ryanzec
2011-04-28 15:26 ` Peter Jönsson P
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