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ticktock
ticktock

Reputation: 637

How to version control a directory with only binary files?

I know git/svn etc. can be used for code repos.

I want version control for a directory full of dll files. This will give me a way to go back in time when the directory gets screwed by constant updates from 3rd party programs.

The solution should be space-efficient, something better than zip-back-up of the directory.

Let me add some more context:

Using svn can solve the problem but I am looking for something light-weight and specialized for this job, which I can distribute with my software installer. I can't expect svn/git available at every deployment site.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 698

Answers (1)

bahrep
bahrep

Reputation: 30662

Subversion is a universal version-control system and it was designed to handle both textual and binary data.

Generally speaking, Subversion repository does not care whether the versioned file is human-readable or not — SVN's diff engine is a binary delta algorithm (xdelta), not a contextual diff engine. Subversion’s xdelta compression algorithm works both for textual content and non-compressed binary data. If you change several bytes in a non-compressed multi-gigabyte binary file, Subversion needs only to store those bytes (plus metadata) for the new version of your file.

Upvotes: 2

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