Creating a very simple revision system for photos in python

[Chris Hulan]

On Mar 11, 9:56 am, Thomas W <thomas.weh... at gmail.com> wrote:
> I`m thinking about creating a very simple revision system for photos
> in python, something like bazaar, mercurial or git, but for photos.
> The problem is that handling large binary files compared to plain text
> files are quite different. Has anybody done something like this or
> have any thoughts about it, I`d be very grateful. If something like
> mercurial or git could be used and/or extended/customized that would
> be even better.
>
> We are talking about large numbers of photos and some of them are
> large in size as well, but the functionality does not have to be a
> full fledged revision system, just handle checking out, checking in,
> handling conflicts, rollbacks etc, preferrably without storing
> complete copies of the files in question for every operation.
>
> Thanks for any input. :-)

Most traditional revision systems excel at managing text, but suck at
binary.
I recall that Picassa has a revision system

It occurs to me you could use Uuencoding to make binaries more
amendable to
handling by text-oriented revision systems