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From: Rogan Dawes <lists@dawes.za.net>
Subject: Re: git and binary files
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:05:57 +0200
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Petko Manolov wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Jeff King wrote:
> 
>> OK, that was the answer I was looking for; it looks like you are out
>> of luck.
> 
> Story of my life. :-)
> 
>> As an experiment, it might be worth trying to store the uncompressed
>> versions instead (git will delta _and_ compress them for you).
> 
> I don't have them uncompressed.
> 
> I can try to convert those files into ascii format and then save them in 
> the repository.  Since most changes are incremental git should be able 
> to generate relatively small delta, which should compress well enough.
> 
> Thanks for the hint.
> 
> 
>         Petko

That is unlikely to help, since git can find deltas in binary files just 
as easily as in text files. All you are doing is changing the encoding.

Rogan