Re: git and binary files
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- Rogan Dawes <lists@dawes.za.net>
- Date
- Jan 16, 2008, 15:05 UTC
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Petko Manolov wrote:
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> On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Jeff King wrote: > >> OK, that was the answer I was looking for; it looks like you are out >> of luck. > > Story of my life. :-) > >> As an experiment, it might be worth trying to store the uncompressed >> versions instead (git will delta _and_ compress them for you). > > I don't have them uncompressed. > > I can try to convert those files into ascii format and then save them in > the repository. Since most changes are incremental git should be able > to generate relatively small delta, which should compress well enough. > > Thanks for the hint. > > > Petko
That is unlikely to help, since git can find deltas in binary files just as easily as in text files. All you are doing is changing the encoding.
Rogan