Re: binary safe?

From: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
Date: 2005-11-04 14:49:10
On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 02:50:21PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> So the _only_ problem should be "git diff" (and related patch-based
> tools - git-apply etc). They'll simply not work. For similar
> reasons, a three-way merge will obviously fail.

I always thought it would be nice for binary files if SCMs could
export a summary of what ranges of bytes changes or even xdelta'ish
details.

Given that people do stick large multi-MB binary blobs in SCMs and
sometimes these update only a few bytes at a time it has some value.

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