Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2017 09:02:02 -0700 From: Ngie Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com> To: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> Cc: Alan Somers <asomers@freebsd.org>, Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org>, Ngie Cooper <ngie@freebsd.org>, Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@freebsd.org>, "Simon J. Gerraty" <sjg@freebsd.org>, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" <svn-src-head@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r319295 - head/usr.bin/mkimg/tests Message-ID: <4B2F447B-6BBF-4716-A329-7B748F963E6A@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7BA69054-D85F-49B5-8EB0-948DFC1A998E@xcllnt.net> References: <201705310801.v4V81CjO004032@repo.freebsd.org> <20170601050339.GA48398@spindle.one-eyed-alien.net> <7FC9CB7D-CF96-4ACA-A38C-E82836127BA4@gmail.com> <78A8D734-A627-437D-AE63-BA94C543C36B@xcllnt.net> <CAOtMX2jogda9vzo-8PG6-YMk3kPjO8%2BhzLYGiZAMzFaepQc1-Q@mail.gmail.com> <7BA69054-D85F-49B5-8EB0-948DFC1A998E@xcllnt.net>
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> On Jun 1, 2017, at 08:35, Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> wrote: >=20 >=20 >> On Jun 1, 2017, at 8:32 AM, Alan Somers <asomers@freebsd.org> wrote: ... >> If the files are binary, then why not store them as binary files? >=20 > A 100MB image, committed as binary file is 100MB of data. The hexdump -C > equivalent is often only a few hundred bytes (due to the many zeroes). > The repo bloat argument has grounds for binary files. hexdump still has a number of formatting bugs... I guess I should go back an= d write some tests/fix the issues, almost a decade after I tried to take the= m on originally... Thanks! -Ngie=
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