Re: [PATCH] Optionally use deltas in dumpfiles

Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> writes:

> The problem: the output of "svnadmin dump" is useful as a
> platform-independent backup format, as a way of transporting new
> revisions across the net, and for other purposes. But for some
> workloads it's too big, because it dumps all the properties and all
> the plaintext for each changed node-revision.
>
> The following patch--another thousand-line ghudson weekend code bomb,
> because I know you all love them so much--implements a new "svnadmin
> dump --deltas" option to cause dumps to be made using deltas.

I don't have time to read/review the patch right now, so I'll stick to
asking questions that I feel you owe us as a penalty for dropping
another code bomb. :-)

  - Against what are the deltas for a given node? The previous node?

  - In what situations are deltas used: adds-with-history?
    adds-without-history? modifications?

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Received on Mon Mar 29 04:10:30 2004