So I decided to check this out. Used dd if=/dev/random to create a 100mb file, checked that in, used dd again to modify 10mb of that file, checked that in and the result were two 98mb objects.
Tracking changes of binaries makes a lot of sense if you use that to only store incremental changes to the file. Git stores each modification of a binary file as a separate blob since it doesn't know how to track its changes.
This is mitigated in large parts by the compression applied in git-gc, after packed, objects went from 196mb to 108mb.
Tracking changes of binaries makes a lot of sense if you use that to only store incremental changes to the file. Git stores each modification of a binary file as a separate blob since it doesn't know how to track its changes.
This is mitigated in large parts by the compression applied in git-gc, after packed, objects went from 196mb to 108mb.