RE: Is it possible for git to support binary differencing for binary files?

RE: Is it possible for git to support binary differencing for binary files?

[franky]

This is also useful. 3x. However, git-gc is what I want.

-----Original Message-----
From: Lars Hjemli [mailto:hjemli@gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, October 12, 2007 1:27 AM
To: 银平
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Is it possible for git to support binary differencing for
binary files?

On 10/11/07, 银平 <yinping@kooxoo.com> wrote:
> Storing binary files as deltas is helpful to keep source and binary files
> together and in sync  So is it possible for git to do that as svn. This is
> my only pain when using git.

Could 'git diff --binary' and 'git apply --binary' be what you're looking
for?

-- 
larsh

Re: Suggestion for mailing lists... split [PATCH]-es into own list

[Johannes Schindelin]

Hi,

On Thu, 11 Oct 2007, Thomas Harning Jr. wrote:

> I use gmail as my mail client and it doesn't grok 'PATCH' filters 
> (primarily the case of the word).

That's just another bug in gmail.

> Are there any of you using Gmail that has managed to get around this 
> issue....?

We did not even find a way to post patches via gmail's web interface, not 
without severely damaging the patches.  So I guess no, most of us avoid 
the web interface (unless absolutely necessary, in which case we resort to 
the less than brilliant solution to attach the patches).

> Perhaps we should have a separate mailing list for patches vs 
> discussion.

I, for one, am totally opposed to this split.  All too often valuable 
_user_ discussions turn into _technical_ discussions, and thence into a 
throwing back and forth patches.

Ciao,
Dscho

Is it possible for git to support binary differencing for binary files?

[银平]

Hi. 
Storing binary files as deltas is helpful to keep source and binary files
together and in sync  So is it possible for git to do that as svn. This is
my only pain when using git.

Re: Is it possible for git to support binary differencing for binary files?

[Jean-Luc Herren]

银平 wrote:
> Hi. 
> 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

RE: Is it possible for git to support binary differencing for binary files?

[franky]

git-gc works perfectly! Thanks all very much. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Jean-Luc Herren [mailto:jlh@gmx.ch] 
Sent: Friday, October 12, 2007 1:54 AM
To: 银平
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Is it possible for git to support binary differencing for
binary files?

银平 wrote:
> Hi. 
> 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

Re: Is it possible for git to support binary differencing for binary files?

[Alex Riesen]

银平, Thu, Oct 11, 2007 18:37:43 +0200:
> Hi. 
> Storing binary files as deltas is helpful to keep source and binary files
> together and in sync  So is it possible for git to do that as svn. This 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.