Re: svn binary deltas: can they be tuned or sth?..

On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 09:46:59PM +0100, Molle Bestefich wrote:
> I'm having problems using "tar -cvf" and "gzip -f --rsyncable" to save
> two entire filesystems into two repositories.
>

>
> As you can see, Subversion's delta algorithm doesn't really work as I
> had expected it to :-).
> Any clue as to why?
>

A couple, but nothing significant:

Is the file ordering the same in each tarfile?

Did emerge do anything silly like update the mtime for each file?

At what points is gzip resync'ing? It's possible that there isn't as
much commonality between the files as you'd expect.

Regards,
Malcolm

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Received on Thu Feb 9 22:50:47 2006