Re: git and binary files

* Petko Manolov:

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Unfortunately this is not the case.  These binary blobs are already
compressed and/or encrypted and adding even a few bytes ends up storing
new version in full size.

Can't you store them uncompressed?

Not really, but i can convert them into ascii format and store only
the delta.  This will admittedly increase the initial size of the
repository, but hopefully not by much.

If the encryption is halfway decent, a new IV/nonce will be chosen for
each new revision, and you can't tell that two ciphertexts share a
common prefix without fully decrypting them.

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