> On Jun 1, 2017, at 08:35, Marcel Moolenaar <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Jun 1, 2017, at 8:32 AM, Alan Somers <[email protected]> wrote:

...

>> If the files are binary, then why not store them as binary files?
> 
> A 100MB image, committed as binary file is 100MB of data. The hexdump -C
> equivalent is often only a few hundred bytes (due to the many zeroes).
> The repo bloat argument has grounds for binary files.

hexdump still has a number of formatting bugs... I guess I should go back and 
write some tests/fix the issues, almost a decade after I tried to take them on 
originally...
Thanks!
-Ngie
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