Re: git and binary files
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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- Jan 16, 2008, 18:09 UTC
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
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> Petko Manolov <petkan@nucleusys.com> writes: > >> On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Wincent Colaiuta wrote: >> >>> If the exact contents of these large binaries *really* don't matter, >>> as you say they don't, than why don't you just commit one and never >>> touch it again? >> >> Unfortunately those binaries does change, although the process is slow >> and not very frequent. And this is why it pokes me in the eye - for >> changing a few bytes i end up with much larger repository. > > For changing a few bytes you get with much larger repository? > What happened to our packfiles? > > Is it possible for us to take a look at two versions of such a > binary blob, one before the change and one after such a change > that touches only a few bytes?
I replied before reading the rest of the thread. Please ignore me on this one.