From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Patrick Berkeley Subject: On Tracking Binary Files Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 10:42:22 -0400 Message-ID: <7efce40a0904140742i48aad41ds66de5dfe368f3b16@mail.gmail.com> References: <7efce40a0904140741w28da9b54ucfe4b54bf48b0844@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Apr 14 16:52:49 2009 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 1Ltk0G-00085Y-GG for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 14 Apr 2009 16:52:48 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755878AbZDNOum (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Apr 2009 10:50:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750793AbZDNOum (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Apr 2009 10:50:42 -0400 Received: from yw-out-2324.google.com ([74.125.46.30]:10049 "EHLO yw-out-2324.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750746AbZDNOul (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Apr 2009 10:50:41 -0400 Received: by yw-out-2324.google.com with SMTP id 5so2683952ywb.1 for ; Tue, 14 Apr 2009 07:50:40 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :from:date:message-id:subject:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=ZeFdHSas2AE8vNURl9J+BGA2MtKL9U72CZacCZKuung=; b=bNN7hKna2YZafdCcPc3XQS8ZjvF1tG0VbWA/62wvEGbZ6CioUo4+nzSLmRYv95zt2N ZdWg3f1SR1rkVgnGJO+2dzAxuOhKqE8MVZqyYsWdqBGsz/t1fbEjKopyJb7/hX3lhoAt izw9G1pEK9hvVzhRcqdtr2sv6KJchp/GyOOYs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=opqtE43uG5IO2gfPxjKKSiJc1ijJxykq5PgHkWJNIBRTdYgyrKdQbT6jfjPgDD+XAP 3adtSPy4rhjSM28hBJvkxGfgnG02QT5QaKY8bjBe7e13WaNh4NkS2R7BYSC8TpzD8eJ2 k7ypGgOsMrjgttu3FjM1R8SsgLUFMQ8oe+Xgg= Received: by 10.151.7.11 with SMTP id k11mr3211253ybi.170.1239720157154; Tue, 14 Apr 2009 07:42:37 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <7efce40a0904140741w28da9b54ucfe4b54bf48b0844@mail.gmail.com> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Does Git track the deltas on binary files? Someone in #git mentioned that if the binaries change too much Git no longer just stores the changes. If this is the case, what is the breaking point where Git goes from storing the deltas to the entire new file? Thanks, Patrick