Re: How should I handle binary file with GIT

From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Apr 5, 2006, 15:32 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0604051131010.2550@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <e10mn9$cjs$1@sea.gmane.org>

On Wed, 5 Apr 2006, Jakub Narebski wrote:

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> Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> bsdiff? http://www.daemonology.net/bsdiff/
> EDelta? http://www.diku.dk/~jacobg/edelta/
> Xdelta? http://xdelta.blogspot.com/
> 
> IIRC bsdiff is used by Firefox to distribute binary software updates.
> Xdelta is generic (not optimized for binaries like bsdiff and edelta), but
> supposedly offers worse compression (bigger diffs).

We already have our own delta code for pack storage.

Nicolas