From: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 19:10:58 GMT
Subject: Re: serious performance issues with images, audio files, and other "non-code" data
Message-ID: <AANLkTiltNPIR5gAWMOqZ2Y_azFUU93kH54ddHuCFFeCp@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100518190706.GA2383@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Heya,

On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 21:07, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> No, not to my knowledge. Even the "binary" attribute just says "this
> file is binary, don't text diff it". I think we will always still do
> rewrite-detection for operations like "git status" and the diff summary
> of "git commit".

Would that not be a very sensible optimization that would help John
(and other users of big files) a lot?

-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier