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On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Wincent Colaiuta wrote:

> If the exact contents of these large binaries *really* don't matter, as 
> you say they don't, than why don't you just commit one and never touch 
> it again?

Unfortunately those binaries does change, although the process is slow and 
not very frequent.  And this is why it pokes me in the eye - for changing 
a few bytes i end up with much larger repository.


 		Petko