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

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Ffranky <yinping@kooxoo.com>
Date
Oct 12, 2007, 03:01 UTC
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git-gc works perfectly! Thanks all very much. 
-----Original Message-----
From: Jean-Luc Herren [mailto:jlh@gmx.ch] 
Sent: Friday, October 12, 2007 1:54 AM
To: 银平
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Is it possible for git to support binary differencing for
binary files?
银平 wrote:
> Hi. 
> Storing binary files as deltas is helpful [...] So is it
> possible for git to do that as svn. This is my only pain when
> using git.

Yes, and git does this already in pack files. Maybe you're not seeing it because you haven't packed anything yet. Try to run 'git gc'.

jlh
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