Re: A simple (?) suggestion from a svn fan :)

Jani Averbach <jaa@cc.jyu.fi> writes:

> On 24 Feb 2003, Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
>
> > Internally, Subversion uses a binary diff algorithm to express all
> > file differences, regardless of whether a file contains text or binary
> > data. So when you store successive versions of a binary file in a
> > Subversion repository, you *are* getting differential (compressed)
> > storage. (CVS, because it uses RCS, has to store the entire binary
> > file over and over.)

> I would be nice if this is stated out very clearly (like your above
> paragraph does) in the book. I.e. in the section:
> "Appendix A. Subversion for CVS Users: Binary files and translation".

It's right in Chapter 1, in the list of SVN Features:

  Consistent data handling -- Subversion expresses file differences
  using a binary differencing algorithm, which works identically on
  both text (human-readable) and binary (human-unreadable) files. Both
  types of files are stored equally compressed in the repository, and
  differences are transmitted in both directions across the network.

It's also on the front page of the website.

But maybe you're right, maybe it should be in Appendix A as well. :-)

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Received on Mon Feb 24 19:12:50 2003