Re: How should I handle binary file with GIT
From: Nicolas Pitre <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:42:23
On Wed, 5 Apr 2006, moreau francis wrote:
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--- Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> a écrit :quoted
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.well maybe it's just stupid, but why not simply transforming binary files into ascii files (maybe by using uuencode) before using git-diff-* brothers and git-apply ?
Imagine if the only difference between two versions of the same file is a single byte inserted at the very beginning. The uuencode would then be totally different between the two files. Nicolas