>One big caveat of this is that since git doesn't really store just a stack of diffs, despite the fact it presents itself as such to the user,
>a custom merge driver will not make your .git grow any less than it would normally.
You can go a long way with simple homespun methods. SQL dumps delta-compress in Git very well - especially if you tweak the dump options a bit so that the row order is mostly stable.
The same most probably goes for any other textual dump - if the (unchanged) content is largely ordered in stable fashion, it will delta-compress very well, even without any explicit, specialized support in Git itself.
>a custom merge driver will not make your .git grow any less than it would normally.
You can go a long way with simple homespun methods. SQL dumps delta-compress in Git very well - especially if you tweak the dump options a bit so that the row order is mostly stable.
The same most probably goes for any other textual dump - if the (unchanged) content is largely ordered in stable fashion, it will delta-compress very well, even without any explicit, specialized support in Git itself.