On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 08:58:20PM -0600, Von Fugal wrote:
> 
> Is there a reason that SCMs don't do deltas on 'binary' files? I mean
> besides the obvious they're opaque to a human. Still, it's all just bits
> to the computer anyway. So why not store deltas on binaries?

I know git does, but I don't think most other systems do.  I don't know
how well it does with them, though.

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