# RE: Is it possible for git to support binary differencing for binary files?

1 messages from 2007-10-12 to 2007-10-12. Participants: franky.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/10254

## franky, 2007-10-12 03:04

Subject: RE: Is it possible for git to support binary differencing for binary files?
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This is also useful. 3x. However, git-gc is what I want.

-----Original Message-----
From: Lars Hjemli [mailto:hjemli@gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, October 12, 2007 1:27 AM
To: 银平
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Is it possible for git to support binary differencing for
binary files?

On 10/11/07, 银平 <yinping@kooxoo.com> wrote:
> Storing binary files as deltas is helpful to keep source and binary files
> together and in sync  So is it possible for git to do that as svn. This is
> my only pain when using git.

Could 'git diff --binary' and 'git apply --binary' be what you're looking
for?

-- 
larsh

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