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Re: Is it possible for git to support binary differencing for binary files?

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Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date
Oct 11, 2007, 18:15 UTC
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银平, Thu, Oct 11, 2007 18:37:43 +0200:
> Hi. 
> Storing binary files as deltas is helpful to keep source and binary files
> together and in sync  So is it possible for git to do that as svn. This is
> my only pain when using git.

Why? Git works perfectly with binary files. In fact, some of my repos have more binaries than text.

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