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From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@bfk.de>
To: Petko Manolov <petkan@nucleusys.com>
Cc: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>,
	Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git and binary files
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:41:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <82r6gh9104.fsf@mid.bfk.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0801161640010.5260@bender.nucleusys.com> (Petko Manolov's message of "Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:43:09 +0200 (EET)")

* Petko Manolov:

>>> Unfortunately this is not the case.  These binary blobs are already
>>> compressed and/or encrypted and adding even a few bytes ends up storing
>>> new version in full size.
>>
>> Can't you store them uncompressed?
>
> Not really, but i can convert them into ascii format and store only
> the delta.  This will admittedly increase the initial size of the
> repository, but hopefully not by much.

If the encryption is halfway decent, a new IV/nonce will be chosen for
each new revision, and you can't tell that two ciphertexts share a
common prefix without fully decrypting them.

-- 
Florian Weimer                <fweimer@bfk.de>
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-01-16 16:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-16 10:34 git and binary files Petko Manolov
2008-01-16 10:54 ` David Symonds
2008-01-16 13:21   ` Petko Manolov
2008-01-16 13:42     ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-01-16 13:58       ` Petko Manolov
2008-01-16 14:07         ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-01-16 14:21           ` Petko Manolov
2008-01-16 14:34         ` Wincent Colaiuta
2008-01-16 14:45           ` Petko Manolov
2008-01-16 18:02             ` Junio C Hamano
2008-01-16 18:09               ` Junio C Hamano
2008-01-16 11:54 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-01-16 13:39   ` Petko Manolov
2008-01-16 13:53     ` Jakub Narebski
2008-01-16 14:04       ` Petko Manolov
2008-01-16 14:20         ` Jakub Narebski
2008-01-16 14:43           ` Petko Manolov
2008-01-16 15:01             ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-01-16 15:18               ` Petko Manolov
2008-01-16 15:58                 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-01-16 16:06                   ` Petko Manolov
2008-01-16 16:09               ` Petko Manolov
2008-01-16 16:34             ` Jakub Narebski
2008-01-16 16:41             ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2008-01-16 13:54     ` Jeff King
2008-01-16 14:14       ` Petko Manolov
2008-01-16 14:18         ` Jeff King
2008-01-16 14:25           ` Petko Manolov
2008-01-16 14:32             ` Jeff King
2008-01-16 14:39               ` Petko Manolov
2008-01-16 15:05                 ` Rogan Dawes
2008-01-18  6:52                 ` David Brown
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-07-28 14:17 Jan Dittmer
2010-07-28 14:29 ` Matthieu Moy
2010-07-28 20:17   ` Avery Pennarun
2011-04-28 15:11 Git and Binary Files ryanzec
2011-04-28 15:26 ` Peter Jönsson P

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