Thanks very much for the explanation . On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 15:42, Nicolas Pitre <nico@xxxxxxx> wrote: > 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