From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alex Riesen Subject: Re: Is it possible for git to support binary differencing for binary files? Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 20:15:18 +0200 Message-ID: <20071011181518.GB2804@steel.home> References: <20071011163746.DEB147E6F@mail.kooxoo.com> Reply-To: Alex Riesen Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: =?utf-8?B?6ZO25bmz?= X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Oct 11 20:15:47 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Ig2ZK-0006zw-Cw for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 11 Oct 2007 20:15:34 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755474AbXJKSPX convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Oct 2007 14:15:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755413AbXJKSPX (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Oct 2007 14:15:23 -0400 Received: from mo-p07-ob.rzone.de ([81.169.146.190]:49089 "EHLO mo-p07-ob.rzone.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753400AbXJKSPX (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Oct 2007 14:15:23 -0400 Received: from tigra.home (Fc872.f.strato-dslnet.de [195.4.200.114]) by post.webmailer.de (mrclete mo56) (RZmta 13.4) with ESMTP id 500c4bj9BF3CoK ; Thu, 11 Oct 2007 20:15:20 +0200 (MEST) (envelope-from: ) Received: from steel.home (steel.home [192.168.1.2]) by tigra.home (Postfix) with ESMTP id 485FF277AE; Thu, 11 Oct 2007 20:15:18 +0200 (CEST) Received: by steel.home (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 283B3C50A; Thu, 11 Oct 2007 20:15:18 +0200 (CEST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071011163746.DEB147E6F@mail.kooxoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-RZG-AUTH: z4gQVF2k5XWuW3CcuQaEWo+ecrQ= X-RZG-CLASS-ID: mo07 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: =E9=93=B6=E5=B9=B3, Thu, Oct 11, 2007 18:37:43 +0200: > Hi.=20 > Storing binary files as deltas is helpful to keep source and binary f= iles > together and in sync So is it possible for git to do that as svn. Th= is is > my only pain when using git. Why? Git works perfectly with binary files. In fact, some of my repos have more binaries than text.