From: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz)
To: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Cc: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How should I handle binary file with GIT
Date: 05 Apr 2006 08:37:10 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86wte4rq3d.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0604051131010.2550@localhost.localdomain>
>>>>> "Nicolas" == Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> writes:
>> IIRC bsdiff is used by Firefox to distribute binary software updates.
>> Xdelta is generic (not optimized for binaries like bsdiff and edelta), but
>> supposedly offers worse compression (bigger diffs).
Nicolas> We already have our own delta code for pack storage.
I think the issue is related to being able to cherry-pick and merge
when binaries are involved. I've been worried about that myself.
How well are binaries supported these days for all the operations
we're taking for granted? When is a "diff" expected to be a real
"diff" and not just "binary files differ"?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-05 15:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-05 7:30 How should I handle binary file with GIT moreau francis
2006-04-05 8:14 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-04-05 12:21 ` moreau francis
2006-04-05 13:25 ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-04-05 13:35 ` moreau francis
2006-04-05 13:06 ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-04-05 13:18 ` moreau francis
2006-04-05 19:23 ` Marco Roeland
2006-04-05 15:11 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-04-05 15:32 ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-04-05 15:37 ` Randal L. Schwartz [this message]
2006-04-05 15:55 ` Shawn Pearce
2006-04-05 16:25 ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-04-05 16:21 ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-04-05 18:34 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-04-05 18:51 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2006-04-05 19:31 ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-04-05 20:20 ` Junio C Hamano
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