svn commit: r319295 - head/usr.bin/mkimg/tests

Ngie Cooper yaneurabeya at gmail.com
Thu Jun 1 16:02:04 UTC 2017


> On Jun 1, 2017, at 08:35, Marcel Moolenaar <marcel at xcllnt.net> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Jun 1, 2017, at 8:32 AM, Alan Somers <asomers at freebsd.org> wrote:

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>> If the files are binary, then why not store them as binary files?
> 
> 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 and write some tests/fix the issues, almost a decade after I tried to take them on originally...
Thanks!
-Ngie


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