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From: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
To: "Soni L." <fakedme+git@gmail.com>
Cc: "git@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Delta compression hooks
Date: Thu, 4 May 2017 15:57:29 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGZ79ka66czcGpNGWFEQ=2Qf7OJgH7A-O+R860P=usiFWV4RBA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b8f1dab4-896f-c9ad-7a89-87aacb2c3e61@gmail.com>

On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 3:48 PM, Soni L. <fakedme+git@gmail.com> wrote:
> Can we get delta compression hooks? I'm working with voxel data as my source
> code (it's a long story...) and git doesn't handle changing lines of voxels
> very well.
>
> Example, I have something from position (0,0,0) to position (0,10,0) and I
> replace it with something else. Git doesn't handle this difference very well
> if the file is encoded in XYZ order (it'd handle it exceptionally well if
> the file was in YXZ or YZX order), and Z-order curves aren't much better.
> It's even worse if the file is compressed.

Maybe look into smudge filters to store the data in a different format
inside Git
than what is in the working tree.

https://git-scm.com/docs/gitattributes

  reply	other threads:[~2017-05-04 22:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-05-04 22:48 Delta compression hooks Soni L.
2017-05-04 22:57 ` Stefan Beller [this message]
2017-05-04 23:40   ` Soni L.

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