Problems with large compressed binaries when converting from svn

["Øyvind Harboe" <oyvind.harboe@zylin.com>]

I'm converting from svn and I've run into a
problem with tar.gz and tar.bz2 compressed files.

(This is a separate but only slightly related to previous post).

In subversion we committed large tar.bz2/gz files. These files would
change relatively rarely, but only very slightly.  The trouble with the tar.bz2
format is that if the first byte changes, then the rest of the file will also
be different. .zip does not have this problem, but .zip isn't a very friendly
format for our purposes.

Later on the tar.bz2/gz files started to change fairly often, but harddrives
get bigger much more quickly than the .svn repository grows so we just
kept doing things the same way rather than reeducate and reengineer
the procedures.

With .git we need to handle this differently somehow.

Does git have some capability to store diffs of compressed files efficiently?

The only other alternative I can think of is to commit uncompressed
.tar files which is a bit of a bump in the road, but I suppose could be
made to work.



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