From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jakub Narebski Subject: Re: How should I handle binary file with GIT Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2006 17:11:43 +0200 Organization: At home 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 X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Apr 05 17:12:21 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 1FR9fx-0003Mo-Bl for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 05 Apr 2006 17:12:06 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750765AbWDEPMB (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Apr 2006 11:12:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750834AbWDEPMB (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Apr 2006 11:12:01 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:14535 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750765AbWDEPMA (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Apr 2006 11:12:00 -0400 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1FR9fl-0003Jl-Hd for git@vger.kernel.org; Wed, 05 Apr 2006 17:11:53 +0200 Received: from 193.0.122.19 ([193.0.122.19]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 05 Apr 2006 17:11:53 +0200 Received: from jnareb by 193.0.122.19 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 05 Apr 2006 17:11:53 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: git@vger.kernel.org X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 193.0.122.19 Mail-Copies-To: jnareb@gmail.com User-Agent: KNode/0.7.7 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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. bsdiff? http://www.daemonology.net/bsdiff/ EDelta? http://www.diku.dk/~jacobg/edelta/ Xdelta? http://xdelta.blogspot.com/ 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). -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland