Re: git and binary files

From: Petko Manolov <petkan@nucleusys.com>
Date: Jan 16, 2008, 16:09 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0801161806220.5260@bender.nucleusys.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0801160958170.25841@xanadu.home>

On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Nicolas Pitre wrote:

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> On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Petko Manolov wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Jakub Narebski wrote:
>>
>>> Petko Manolov wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Unfortunately this is not the case.  These binary blobs are already
>>>> compressed and/or encrypted and adding even a few bytes ends up storing
>>>> new version in full size.
>>>
>>> Can't you store them uncompressed?
>>
>> Not really, but i can convert them into ascii format and store only the delta.
>
> If you don't have the original uncompressed unencrypted file, what will
> converting them to ascii actually give you?

Not much. I was blindly hoping that bzip2 may compress such files better, though i haven't tested this hypothesis yet. Will let you know if the result is different from the obvious one. :-)

 		Petko