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

From: Jean-Luc Herren <jlh@gmx.ch>
Date: Oct 11, 2007, 17:54 UTC
Message-ID: <470E633D.8060107@gmx.ch>
In-Reply-To: <20071011163746.DEB147E6F@mail.kooxoo.com>

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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