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From: bill lam <cbill.lam@gmail.com>
Subject: tracking binary files
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 11:16:02 +0800
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I would like to use git to track some database files of sizes from 1MB
to 50MB.  I want to know does git compress them for storage or not.
If so, what will be the expected compression ratio.  Those files
normally compressed to 25% of original size using zip.

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regards,
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GPG key 1024D/4434BAB3 2008-08-24
gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 4434BAB3
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=AE=A2=E8=88=8D=E9=9D=92=E9=9D=92=E6=9F=B3=E8=89=B2=E6=96=B0  =E5=8B=B8=
=E5=90=9B=E6=9B=B4=E7=9B=A1=E4=B8=80=E6=9D=AF=E9=85=92  =E8=A5=BF=E5=87=
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