Re: Simple repository size experiment

Tobias Ringström wrote:

> For another (real) repository of mine, the compressed dump file is
> *smaller* than the compressed repository. I mentioned that on this
> list a long time ago, and "everyone" just figured that I must have a
> very strange repository since the vdelta is supposed to be soo great.
> I wish I could see that. The propaganda (lacking a better word, sorry)
> has been soo successful that I'm still very surprised every time I see
> that a subversion repository becomes larger than the CVS equivalent. :-)

Then we have to figure out why that happens. vdelta definitely won't be
very god at compressing differences between binary file types that are
already compressed -- that includes ZIP file, JAR files and many image
types (GIF, PNG, JPEG come to mind, TIFF can be LZW compressed, etc.).
It's possible that, for these kinds of files, we should always store the
fulltext.

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Brane ÄŒibej   <brane_at_xbc.nu>   http://www.xbc.nu/brane/
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