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). -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html