Fw: Curiosity
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- João Victor Bonfim <joaovictorbonfim@protonmail.com>
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- Dec 15, 2021, 03:52 UTC
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I sent this message to Junio Hamano kinda of forever ago, since then I haven't been able to address it or do anything about it really (I am personally making a report on Git for the conclusion of my technician course so I can get my certification, yada yada yada, couldn't get to it). These days I have been reading Junio's responses on the git mailing list archive (https://marc.info/?l=git or rather https://marc.info/?a=118086005800002&r=1&w=4) from May to now to see if Junio said anything. Junio didn't, but I did read https://marc.info/?i=xmqqpmudng5x.fsf%20()%20gitster%20!%20g and kinda of felt that was targeted at me, or people like me at least...
`:-) - me sweating in exasperation.
Also since then, I may have improved on my confusing line of thought, so here is the past message and my current version so to speak:
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Since Git is almost used for everything at this point, is there any intent on providing better support for non textual file types? Why do I say this? Take this game mod which I follow as example -> https://github.com/SolariusScorch/XComFiles <- whenever I clone it Git takes a significant forever amount of time to download 452 MB of files whose some part, from my perspective, isn't being delta compressed like the text files are (since, whenever reading a log of what changes were made, git creates and undoes modes for all binary files, some of which only changed by a pixel from one colour to another).
From my perspective it would be interesting to enhance the effectiveness/performance of git for such files, since some projects are very heavy on multimedia that isn't hard coded and those will eventually come around to using git. From a personal perspective: I pretend to create an open source game and track it with git, however it concerns me whether or not it might take forever for users to clone the repo once a few versions of a singular file of, perhaps, some Gigabytes in size aren't stored and compressed efficiently and instead all the versions are stored in full, totalling some Terabytes in storage for a few of such files.
‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Wednesday, 27, May, 2021, 22:12, João Victor Bonfim <JoaoVictorBonfim@protonmail.com> wrote:
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> I am assuming you are the Git maintainer, therefore the message, otherwise, forgive me. > Considering the ubiquity of Git as a versioning system and my internal queries about the future of software development, specially game development, is there any intent on providing support for non textual file types? What do I mean is that binary files, from my perspective as a user, are tracked in full rather than partially, which I mean is that the files are discarded and replaced if they are altered when, instead, they could have the differentiation between files tracked. Of course this would require several changes to Git so it can interpret images and so on, but I think that it could be good for software development that requires extensive multimedia use and, therefore, may require that better tracking for such material is made available. > > Do you understand where I want to get to? > > Graciously yours, João Victor Bonfim.