On 2005-12-07 14:39:00 -0500, Phillip Susi wrote:
> Good point. Sometimes I will change a block of C code by wrapping it in
> a conditional or loop. The real change is to add maybe one or two
> lines, and add another tab to indent 50 lines one more level.
> Subversion diffs out and stores all 52 lines rather than just the 2 new
> lines, and recognizing that the other 50 lines just got another tab
> prefixed ( a one byte change per line, which is exactly the same on all
> 50 lines ). A smarter diff engine would be nice for that.
omg. yes please complicate all that more and more so we can finally
crunch it down to a "change description language", which will record
insert 2 lines and indent the lines in between ... i mean pulling in vim
or emacs into SVN would give that feature quite easily.
</ironic>
if you have really such disk space problems ... you should either
consider if need some more disks or think if you _really_ need all
your stuff under version control. otherwise i can just say:
keep it simple stupid.
just my 2 cents,
darix
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Received on Wed Dec 7 21:07:51 2005