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Re: How should I handle binary file with GIT

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Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
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Apr 5, 2006, 13:25 UTC
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On Wed, 5 Apr 2006, moreau francis wrote:
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> --- Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> a écrit :
> 
> > It _might_ make sense to adopt a well-defined binary patch
> > format (or if there is no prior art, introduce our own) and
> > support that format with both git-diff-* brothers and git-apply,
> > but that would be a bit longer term project.
> > 
> 
> well maybe it's just stupid, but why not simply transforming binary files into
> ascii files (maybe by using uuencode) before  using git-diff-* brothers and
> git-apply ?

Imagine if the only difference between two versions of the same file is a single byte inserted at the very beginning. The uuencode would then be totally different between the two files.

Nicolas
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  3. moreau francisApr 5, 2006
  4. Nicolas PitreApr 5, 2006
  5. moreau francisApr 5, 2006
  6. Nicolas PitreApr 5, 2006
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