Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
> 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.
Yes. I know the quoted information already.
> 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.
I though that too. But I don't really know the internal structure of Word
files. They might contain some pointers which are changed every time you add
a symbol or paragraph. That's why I asked about experience with Word files. If
noone tried, will have to experiment myself.
- Volodya
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Received on Wed Mar 5 16:17:34 2003