Re: How should I handle binary file with GIT

On Wed, 5 Apr 2006, Jakub Narebski wrote:

Junio C Hamano wrote:

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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.

bsdiff? http://www.daemonology.net/bsdiff/
EDelta? http://www.diku.dk/~jacobg/edelta/
Xdelta? http://xdelta.blogspot.com/

IIRC bsdiff is used by Firefox to distribute binary software updates.
Xdelta is generic (not optimized for binaries like bsdiff and edelta), but
supposedly offers worse compression (bigger diffs).

We already have our own delta code for pack storage.


Nicolas