Do version control systems use diffs to store binary files?
问题 How do popular version control systems (svn, git) handle storing revisions to a binary document? I have projects with binary sources that are periodically updated and need to be checked in (mostly Photoshop documents, custom data format and a few word processing documents). I've always been worried about checking in the binaries because I thought that the VCS might take a simple route of simply uploading a new copy of the binary each time - and hence my repository would get huge quickly. If I