From: moreau francis <francis_moreau2000@yahoo.fr>
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2006 13:35:44 GMT
Subject: Re: How should I handle binary file with GIT
Message-ID: <20060405133544.69578.qmail@web25802.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0604050906590.2550@localhost.localdomain>


--- Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> a écrit :

> On Wed, 5 Apr 2006, moreau francis wrote:
> > 
> > well maybe it's just stupid, but why not simply transforming binary files
> into
> > ascii files (maybe by using uuencode) before  using git-diff-* brothers and
> > git-apply ?
> 
> Imagine if the only difference between two versions of the same file is 
> a single byte inserted at the very beginning.  The uuencode would then 
> be totally different between the two files.
> 

ok uuencode was just a bad example for encoding...

Francis



	

	
		
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