* Tristan Seligmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-02-26 03:31:56 +0200]: > Just the opposite, darcs stores binary files in an extremely inefficient > manner; a binary patch consists of the entire old contents of the file > in hex, followed by the entire new contents of the file in hex, for a > total size of something like 4x the file size (if my arithmetic has not > gone awry.)
I should note that this is partially offset by the fact that patches are (normally) gzipped, so the end result will not be as bad as a 4x size explosion. I do, in fact, have several darcs repositories containing binary files, without incident; there is not a high rate of modification to these files though. Whether darcs's handling of binary files is acceptable to you will obviously largely depend on your usage patterns. -- mithrandi, i Ainil en-Balandor, a faer Ambar
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