From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 16:54:06 GMT
Subject: Re: On Tracking Binary Files
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0904141853040.10279@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <7efce40a0904140742i48aad41ds66de5dfe368f3b16@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Tue, 14 Apr 2009, Patrick Berkeley wrote:

> Does Git track the deltas on binary files?
> 
> Someone in #git mentioned that if the binaries change too much Git no
> longer just stores the changes. If this is the case, what is the
> breaking point where Git goes from storing the deltas to the entire
> new file?

Git does not store the deltas as you think it does.  The deltification of 
the objects is almost independent from the commmit history, i.e. we 
_always_ store snapshots for most practical matters.

Ciao,
Dscho