Re: Proposal: Switch back to savannah using GIT

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi,

Fred Kiefer wrote:
> What is the problem with binary files with git? Would our image files be
> affected? We have plenty of them in gui (tiff, gif, icns) and it would
> be great to know in advance that these wont get corrupted.

no they should not corrupt.

I am not so worried about images, but binary encoded stuff, like gorm or 
nib files.

A post I found said like this:

From personal experience I can conclude that both systems handle big 
binaries almost/equally mediocre/with with a*slight*advantage from SVN 
(for pre-1.7 versions, now I don't see at Git side at all):

 * the same modified file, committed to repository, increased the size
   of the SVN repository slightly smaller than Git-repository
 * I never had broken SVN-repo with big files, with Git it
   happened/noticeable/amount of time




Riccardo