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Comment by joeyh

6 months ago

A common misconception. git has always used binary deltas for pack files. Consider that git tree objects are themselves not text files, and git needs efficiently store slightly modified versions of the same tree.

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afiori  6 months ago

so are pack files diffed byte-wise?

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