Re: not storing diffs of binary files

On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 4:26 PM, Daniel Shahaf <d.s_at_daniel.shahaf.name>wrote:

> A quick test in a new repository shows that delta storages is used for
> the second revision of a file.
>
> % svn add iota
> % svn ci -mm
> % echo>>iota
> % svn ci -mm
> % svn info iota
> Last Changed Revision: 2
> % grep DELTA ../r1/db/revs/0/2
> Binary file 2 matches
>

I was going to followup to clarify but since I said to read the doc, I did
not bother.

All revisions are "deltified" but some are deltified against an empty
stream. I do not know if the diagram is accurate, but revisions 1 and 2 of
the file are both against the empty stream.

-- 
Thanks
Mark Phippard
http://markphip.blogspot.com/