Subject: Re: How should I handle binary file with GIT

From: Jakub Narebski <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2006 17:11:43 +0200

Junio C Hamano wrote:

> 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).

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland