On Wed, 5 Apr 2006, Jakub Narebski wrote: > 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). We already have our own delta code for pack storage. Nicolas - : 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