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Re: Whither delta combiner

From: Karl Fogel <kfogel_at_newton.ch.collab.net>
Date: 2002-02-11 21:00:31 CET

Zack Weinberg <zack@codesourcery.com> writes:
> I think the diagram above is confused; I'm not sure what the arrows
> mean. I would recommend deltas on branches be stored something like
> this, where <-- means "retrieve the version on the left by applying a
> delta against the version on the right":
>
> 1.1 <-- 1.2 <-- 1.3 <-- 1.4 <-- 1.5
> 1.3.1.1 <-- 1.3.1.2 <-- 1.3.1.3
>
> This way, the existence of a branch affects nothing outside the
> branch, and retrieving the tip of any branch is fast.

Don't worry -- the way svn behaves now is the way you were hoping, and
I don't think any of the schemes under discussion would change that.

-K

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