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BLbill lam <cbill.lam@gmail.com>
Date
Feb 19, 2009, 03:16 UTC
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I would like to use git to track some database files of sizes from 1MB to 50MB. I want to know does git compress them for storage or not. If so, what will be the expected compression ratio. Those files normally compressed to 25% of original size using zip.

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