From: Chris Wedgwood Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 03:49:10 GMT Subject: Re: binary safe? Message-ID: <20051104034910.GB5179@taniwha.stupidest.org> In-Reply-To: On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 02:50:21PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > So the _only_ problem should be "git diff" (and related patch-based > tools - git-apply etc). They'll simply not work. For similar > reasons, a three-way merge will obviously fail. I always thought it would be nice for binary files if SCMs could export a summary of what ranges of bytes changes or even xdelta'ish details. Given that people do stick large multi-MB binary blobs in SCMs and sometimes these update only a few bytes at a time it has some value.