Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman@collab.net> writes:
> Vladimir Prus <ghost@cs.msu.su> writes:
>
> > Hello,
> > does anyone have experience with putting Word documents under Subversion?
> > How binary diff algorithm performs -- i.e. will this be space-efficient?
>
> >From the book:
>
> Subversion expresses file differences using a binary differencing
> algorithm, which works identically on both text (human-readable)
> and binary (human-unreadable) files. Both types of files are stored
> equally compressed in the repository, and differences are
> transmitted in both directions across the network.
Sorry, maybe you wanted an answer specific to performance.
Subversion uses the vdelta binary diffing algorithm. It's performance
on Word documents will probably be pretty good, since (IIRC) while
.doc files are technically binary data, they seem to contain a
whoooole lot of ascii and whitespace as well. Assuming the .doc file
isn't being compressed, I think it should work pretty well.
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Received on Wed Mar 5 16:12:59 2003