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Re: Question about binary files

From: <kfogel_at_collab.net>
Date: 2004-10-25 03:05:18 CEST

"Jim Geist" <jim@rodentia.net> writes:
> But when I tried checking in and changing a binary file, svn
> doesn't appear to send diffs. I checked in a large bitmap
> (~700k), then changed a very little data in the middle, then did
> a commit. Then I did a dump of those two revisions. The first,
> as expected, contains the whole 700k. But the second revision
> shows a change of the same size, even though it's apparent that
> the data is almost all identical. The size of the repository db
> directory was likewise increased by 700k.

SVN dumpfiles show fulltexts by default, but *in the repository*,
these things are stored as deltas, don't worry. You can get 'svnadmin
dump' to use deltas instead by passing it the '--deltas' flag.

-Karl

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