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Re:Fossil versus Git by tom_ on Saturday September 23, 2023 @09:12AM (#37622945)
Most binary files that people want to store in a VCS are stuff like .psd, .xlsx, .docx, and the like - data that's created by people by hand, but not stored as text.
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Re:Fossil versus Git by prepend on Saturday September 23, 2023 @10:30AM (#37623567)
Xlsx and docx are just zipped up xml text. You can store it as text if you like and I think there are many git modules to handle this. But the xml isn’t really that diffable so I don’t bother.
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