[Python-Dev] Base-85 (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Sat Aug 2 23:07:27 CEST 2008


On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 12:58 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

It is also used by git for diffs of binary files, and those diffs are supposedly understood by other VCSes like Mercurial...

I'm very interested in this (for Rietveld). Where can I learn more about how git handles diffs of binary files? Does it actually show adds and deletes of sections of the file?

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