Subject: Re: git and binary files

From: Florian Weimer <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:41:15 +0100

* Petko Manolov:

>>> 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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