From: Rogan Dawes <lists@dawes.za.net>
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 15:05:57 GMT
Subject: Re: git and binary files
Message-ID: <478E1D55.3050108@dawes.za.net>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0801161634080.5260@bender.nucleusys.com>

Petko Manolov wrote:
> 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