[AstralStorm]

It does make sense, and there are forms of delta compression particularly suited to various binary formats, which if combined with a unpacker for compressed files make great sense. However, git does not have an efficient binary diff implemented yet.

LRzip happens to have such a format preprocessor that would make for exceedingly efficient binary history at cost of being more similar to git pack file than incremental versions.

Then again, GitHub in particular sets a very low limit on binary size in version control.

[rurban]

In embedded almost everybody uses efficient binary delta diffs and patching for DFOTA (delta firmware over the air update). Jojodiff exists as GPL and MIT variants.

http://jojodiff.sourceforge.net/

https://github.com/janjongboom/janpatch

Rsync is also very popular, even if not that efficient. xdelta, bsdiff, BDelta, bdiff are all crap.