From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 18:02:32 GMT
Subject: Re: git and binary files
Message-ID: <7vwsq9r6mf.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0801161643480.5260@bender.nucleusys.com>

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?