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Pretty much every modern version control system treats binary files as undiffable and simply stores the whole thing as a hunk. The issue with Git affects pretty
by coldacid 9y ago
Pretty much every modern version control system treats binary files as undiffable and simply stores the whole thing as a hunk. The issue with Git affects pretty much all distributed version control since it requires keeping the entire history locally, so binaries with lots of changes vastly bloats the local repository. Stuff like Git LFS exists to work around that, by storing binaries in a central location instead, but that of course means that your system is no longer really distributed...