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

From
Ffranky <yinping@kooxoo.com>
Date
Oct 12, 2007, 03:04 UTC
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<20071012030452.DA0D07E6F@mail.kooxoo.com>
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<8c5c35580710111027t127fe9d5qe098d5372783b0@mail.gmail.com>
This is also useful. 3x. However, git-gc is what I want.
-----Original Message-----
From: Lars Hjemli [mailto:hjemli@gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, October 12, 2007 1:27 AM
To: 银平
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Is it possible for git to support binary differencing for
binary files?
On 10/11/07, 银平 <yinping@kooxoo.com> wrote:
> 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.

Could 'git diff --binary' and 'git apply --binary' be what you're looking for?

-- 
larsh
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  1. frankyOct 12, 2007

Read the whole thread, see it on lore, or plain text.

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