On 8/28/06, Daniel Berlin <dberlin@dberlin.org> wrote:
> On 8/28/06, Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman@red-bean.com> wrote:
> > On 8/28/06, Daniel Berlin <dberlin@dberlin.org> wrote:
> >
> > > The report from the one person who has ever tried it with large files
> > > was that it sped up commit times from 45 minutes to less than 5 ;)
> >
> > I don't think that this is rocket science which requires testing. :-)
> > Of course, if you just insert new data directly into the stream
> > without trying to deltify it, it's gonna be way way faster.
>
> Uh, no, you don't understand.
> The patch only changes the behavior when deltaing against the empty
> stream (ie for the first file revision).
>
> Right now, we do that using vdelta, but only because it does target
> side deltas, and generates something roughly comparable to zlib, but
> using about 10x more cpu time.
>
> With the patch, svndiff1 using clients will still compress the file,
> but only using zlib.
>
> It turns out that this actually gets better results size wise than
> zlib was anyway.
>
> The patch does *not* change things so that the initial revision is
> uncompressed in any way, it just lets svndiff1 compression (zlib) do
> it instead of the much more expensive vdelta.
Is it still reasonably fast for subsequent revisions? Or does this
just improve the initial commit?
I understand why this would only be used for svndiff1 repositories,
but why would it be problematic with 1.3 clients?
-garrett
-garrett
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Received on Mon Aug 28 17:10:03 2006