Re: delta in SVN is reversible or not

On 14.03.2013 01:03, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> Branko Čibej wrote on Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 00:43:24 +0100:
>> On 14.03.2013 00:07, Bo Chen wrote:
>>> Can anyone help me make clear this question? In SVN, if I have two
>>> versions A and B. I compute a delta of B against A, i.e., I can
>>> recover B by A and this delta. My question is, can I recover A by
>>> using B and the same delta?
>> No. It's theoretically possible to reverse a delta, but to do that, you
>> must have both A and B available.
> If you have A and B, you can just do (A-B) to get a reversed delta.
>
> Or maybe you mean that (A-B) can be computed more efficiently given
> (A,B,B-A) than given (A,B)?

I believe it can be more efficient in terms of the cost for producing
the inverse delta in some cases, but I never researched that in detail
because its clear that the /size/ of such a delta would not be optimal.

-- Brane

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Branko Čibej
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