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Re: Saying goodbye to `svnadmin deltify' ?

From: Greg Hudson <ghudson_at_MIT.EDU>
Date: 2002-05-30 15:12:28 CEST

On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 02:21, cmpilato@collab.net wrote:
> Actually, I was thinking (watch out), and I realized that my brain was
> treating `svnadmin deltify' and `svnadmin undeltify' as a pair, like
> you had to have both, or neither. This is simply bogus. `svnadmin
> undeltify' is mindless to implement (indeed, should still work today,
> though `svnadmin deltify' does not) AND is actually useful. That is,
> right now if I want to be able to dump revision 278 of a copy of the
> Subversion filesystem, I need to undeltify some revisions after 278 so
> my deltas for that revision aren't so darned deep. And you know what?
> I'll never want to re-deltify that, because then I'll be in the same
> ill state I was in when I started!

Perhaps you'd want to re-deltify it if we ever implement skip-deltas.
Then you'd save space without having deep deltas.

Or perhaps you'd want to re-deltify it if we ever have a working delta
combiner. Then having lots of small deltas between here and there
doesn't hurt so much.

Or both.

I don't know how important it is to have the feature, but your argument
doesn't seem to hold.

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