From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nicolas Pitre Subject: Re: How should I handle binary file with GIT Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2006 09:06:48 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: 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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Cc: moreau francis , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Apr 05 15:07:38 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 1FR7iq-0005K9-TT for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 05 Apr 2006 15:06:57 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751103AbWDENGw (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Apr 2006 09:06:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751105AbWDENGw (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Apr 2006 09:06:52 -0400 Received: from relais.videotron.ca ([24.201.245.36]:63269 "EHLO relais.videotron.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751103AbWDENGv (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Apr 2006 09:06:51 -0400 Received: from xanadu.home ([74.56.105.38]) by VL-MH-MR002.ip.videotron.ca (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-2.05 (built Apr 28 2005)) with ESMTP id <0IX900LNM33CTA80@VL-MH-MR002.ip.videotron.ca> for git@vger.kernel.org; Wed, 05 Apr 2006 09:06:49 -0400 (EDT) In-reply-to: <7v3bgs4exz.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> X-X-Sender: nico@localhost.localdomain To: Junio C Hamano Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Wed, 5 Apr 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote: > It _might_ make sense to adopt a well-defined binary patch > format (or if there is no prior art, introduce our own) and > support that format with both git-diff-* brothers and git-apply, > but that would be a bit longer term project. What about simply using diff-delta and encoding its output with base64? Nicolas