The Versions store will do this automatically. It can detect when blocks of a 
file have been duplicated and avoid storing those blocks on disk.

On Jul 28, 2011, at 12:37 AM, Daniel Vollmer wrote:

> Salutations,
> 
> in my custom document package I'm always including a large-ish chunk of data 
> that does not get modified as I change the document itself. Currently, I'm 
> keeping this around as NSData-object and write it out when being asked by 
> NSDocument to return my fileWrapper as one sub-file of the directory package.
> Can I do anything to make it more obvious to the Versions / 
> autosave-mechanism that this file in the package is always the same? Or will 
> it compare the files anyway and notice it's identical to the one used in the 
> previous revision?
> 
> Thanks,
>       Daniel._______________________________________________
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