From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 18:09:41 GMT
Subject: Re: git and binary files
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In-Reply-To: <7vwsq9r6mf.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> 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.