Re: xdelta

pohl <pohl@screaming.org> writes:

> Forgive me if this has been discussed already. I read the design
> goals (I'm salivating...good work) and noticed that SVN plans to
> handle storing binaries gracefully in the repository. One thing
> the document didn't mention was how the storage of the binary
> files would take place. I thought the xdelta library would be
> a good candidate mechanism for space-efficiency.
>
> Has anybody given any thought to this?
>
> http://www.xcf.berkeley.edu/~jmacd/xdelta.html
> http://www.xcf.berkeley.edu/~jmacd/prcs.html

We've been in discussions with Josh MacDonald (the author of xdelta)
for the last week.... more soon on this. :)
Received on Sat Oct 21 14:36:05 2006