From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jean-Luc Herren Subject: Re: Is it possible for git to support binary differencing for binary files? Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 19:54:05 +0200 Message-ID: <470E633D.8060107@gmx.ch> References: <20071011163746.DEB147E6F@mail.kooxoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=GB2312 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: =?GB2312?B?0vjGvQ==?= X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Oct 11 19:54:38 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 1Ig2Ex-0001wU-FJ for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 11 Oct 2007 19:54:31 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755617AbXJKRyV convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Oct 2007 13:54:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755632AbXJKRyV (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Oct 2007 13:54:21 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:46048 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1755585AbXJKRyV (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Oct 2007 13:54:21 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 11 Oct 2007 17:54:18 -0000 Received: from 215-36.79-83.cust.bluewin.ch (EHLO [192.168.123.202]) [83.79.36.215] by mail.gmx.net (mp048) with SMTP; 11 Oct 2007 19:54:18 +0200 X-Authenticated: #14737133 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX188RNUJMbM88EE4tZO6Batqh/rjH4WtRUEtlZZq2W I8IcMdVTI8OzVV User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070805) In-Reply-To: <20071011163746.DEB147E6F@mail.kooxoo.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.3 X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: =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