From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "franky" Subject: RE: Is it possible for git to support binary differencing for binary files? Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 11:01:05 +0800 Message-ID: <20071012030112.024F27E6F@mail.kooxoo.com> References: <470E633D.8060107@gmx.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=gb2312 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: To: "'Jean-Luc Herren'" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Oct 12 05:02:58 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 1IgAmJ-0006PC-J8 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 12 Oct 2007 05:01:32 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754973AbXJLDBR convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Oct 2007 23:01:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755157AbXJLDBQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Oct 2007 23:01:16 -0400 Received: from mail.kooxoo.com ([60.28.194.208]:34095 "EHLO mail.kooxoo.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754820AbXJLDBO convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Oct 2007 23:01:14 -0400 Received: from yinping (unknown [124.42.17.129]) by mail.kooxoo.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 024F27E6F; Fri, 12 Oct 2007 11:01:09 +0800 (CST) X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.5510 Thread-Index: AcgMMLEk/66Tt1mTR5CFKh3+PIsOHgAS023Q X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198 In-Reply-To: <470E633D.8060107@gmx.ch> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: git-gc works perfectly! Thanks all very much.=20 -----Original Message----- =46rom: Jean-Luc Herren [mailto:jlh@gmx.ch]=20 Sent: Friday, October 12, 2007 1:54 AM To: =D2=F8=C6=BD Cc: git@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Is it possible for git to support binary differencing for binary files? =D2=F8=C6=BD wrote: > Hi.=20 > Storing binary files as deltas is helpful [...] So is it > possible for git to do that as svn. This is my only pain when > using git. Yes, and git does this already in pack files. Maybe you're not seeing it because you haven't packed anything yet. Try to run 'git gc'. jlh