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From: Petko Manolov <petkan@nucleusys.com>
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On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Jeff King wrote:

> OK, that was the answer I was looking for; it looks like you are out
> of luck.

Story of my life. :-)

> As an experiment, it might be worth trying to store the uncompressed
> versions instead (git will delta _and_ compress them for you).

I don't have them uncompressed.

I can try to convert those files into ascii format and then save them in 
the repository.  Since most changes are incremental git should be able to 
generate relatively small delta, which should compress well enough.

Thanks for the hint.


 		Petko