From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) Subject: Re: How should I handle binary file with GIT Date: 05 Apr 2006 08:37:10 -0700 Message-ID: <86wte4rq3d.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> References: <20060405073022.13054.qmail@web25806.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> <7v3bgs4exz.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Jakub Narebski , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Apr 05 17:37:39 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FRA4L-0001Qz-Kt for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 05 Apr 2006 17:37:17 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751067AbWDEPhN (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Apr 2006 11:37:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751069AbWDEPhN (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Apr 2006 11:37:13 -0400 Received: from blue.stonehenge.com ([209.223.236.162]:53669 "EHLO blue.stonehenge.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751067AbWDEPhL (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Apr 2006 11:37:11 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by blue.stonehenge.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A9AA8D52C; Wed, 5 Apr 2006 08:37:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from blue.stonehenge.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (blue.stonehenge.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 15727-01-21; Wed, 5 Apr 2006 08:37:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: by blue.stonehenge.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id C009F8F5FD; Wed, 5 Apr 2006 08:37:10 -0700 (PDT) To: Nicolas Pitre x-mayan-date: Long count = 12.19.13.3.8; tzolkin = 9 Lamat; haab = 1 Pop In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: >>>>> "Nicolas" == Nicolas Pitre 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"? -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training!