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

>>>>> Sander Striker l'ha dit:

    Sander> Yes, but the size of the diff is increased tremendously
    Sander> because gzip messes it up. Try gzipping one file, make a
    Sander> small change to the file, gzip again and compare. This
    Sander> isn't something we can trivially solve I think.

Yes, this is the same kind of problem that degrades rsync
ability of keeping my debs up-to-date :\

This partially involves gzip, since it does its work by building some
sort of "dictionaries": changing a single byte may cause a completely
different dictionary to be built, and thus the change propagates very
deep in the whole gzipped file.

There is a patch floating around, recently applied to Debian sid
(http://packages.qa.debian.org/g/gzip/news/1.html) that alleviates the
problem by trying to isolate the change within a single "window",
dumping the dictionary more often, with a light penality of the
compression rate.

IMHO, this is just another thing that a well-thought layer similar to
the cvswrappers mechanism would easily solve.

ciao, lele.

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