Re: How should I handle binary file with GIT

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On Wed, 5 Apr 2006, moreau francis wrote:

> 
> --- Junio C Hamano <junkio@xxxxxxx> a écrit :
> 
> > 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

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