Re: Problems with large compressed binaries when converting from svn

> I'm converting from svn and I've run into a
> problem with tar.gz and tar.bz2 compressed files.
>
> (This is a separate but only slightly related to previous post).
>
> In subversion we committed large tar.bz2/gz files. These files would
> change relatively rarely, but only very slightly.  The trouble with the
> tar.bz2 format is that if the first byte changes, then the rest of the
> file will also be different. .zip does not have this problem, but .zip
> isn't a very friendly format for our purposes.
>
> Later on the tar.bz2/gz files started to change fairly often, but
> harddrives get bigger much more quickly than the .svn repository grows so
> we just kept doing things the same way rather than reeducate and
> reengineer the procedures.
>
> With .git we need to handle this differently somehow.
>
> Does git have some capability to store diffs of compressed files
> efficiently?
>
> The only other alternative I can think of is to commit uncompressed
> .tar files which is a bit of a bump in the road, but I suppose could be
> made to work.