On Tue, 14 Apr 2009, Patrick Berkeley wrote: > Does Git track the deltas on binary files? Yes. And actually git's delta storage doesn't care at all whether a file is text or binary. > Someone in #git mentioned that if the binaries change too much Git no > longer just stores the changes. If this is the case, what is the > breaking point where Git goes from storing the deltas to the entire > new file? If two versions of the same file are simply too different to make delta compression worth it, then no deltas are used. It is still possible that a third version of the same file would produce a nice delta against either the first or second version though, in which case that third version will be stored as a delta. And so on. A sophisticated set of euristics is applied to the list of objects as a whole to determine the best delta arrangement possible. So there is no such thing as a simple "breaking point". Nicolas -- To unsubscribe from this list: 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