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POGit or no Git - Large Binary File Versioning, but no merge needed
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copied!<p>There are many prior conversations here on StackOverflow about versioning and SCM for binary files in a code base. But I haven't found any information about this particular project and use case I'm researching:</p> <p>I have a single parent binary file - very large at multiple gigs in size. From that file, I have hundreds of "children" who are the same size, but each child is slightly unique compared to the parent with very small differences.</p> <p>I'll never need to merge the children into the parent - so I need some serious advice and insight into how to save just the differences between 1 parent and n children:</p> <ol> <li>Save just the binary differences for each child. </li> <li>When that child is needed (for download, to implement, etc), re-compile it using the parent file + differences.</li> <li>NO MERGE needed - I'm just interested in saving differences to reduce file size for each child.</li> </ol> <p>I've worked a lot with GIT and I've seen some great messages here on StackOverflow about Git's amazing ability to process binary files for versioning, like <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4697216/is-git-good-with-binary">this one</a> here.</p> <p>But my needs are more simple - I want an awesome C or C++ backbone for saving binary file differences, and re-compiling the original files using those differences PLUS a parent file. That's it. Is there any fast solution like GIT but without the extra features?</p> <p>Many thanks - I'm trying to avoid re-inventing the wheel here.</p>

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