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Re: [TSVN] Feedback: TortoiseSVN - FAQ

From: Johan Appelgren <johan.appelgren_at_gmail.com>
Date: 2005-01-27 12:18:58 CET

On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 10:55:25 +0000, anahata@microrobotics.co.uk
<anahata@microrobotics.co.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 10:06:06AM +0100, Ghislain wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I work under LabView 7.0 and I would like to use SubVersion for the
> > safeguard of my data. But I am afraid that the files Labview (file
> > binary) are not correctly managed by SubVersion.
>
> Subversion will work on any type of file, but if the files are binary you
> won't get diffs stored very efficiently.
>
> Each time a binary file is updated and committed to the repository, a
> copy of the whole modified file will be added to the repository.
>
> (unless I've missed something)
>
> BTW this is the wrong list for your question - the handling of binary
> files by subversion is not a TortoiseSVN issue.

"But internally, Subversion expresses differences between files using
a binary-differencing algorithm, regardless of whether they contain
textual or binary data. That means that all files are stored
differentially (compressed) in the repository, and small differences
are always sent over the network." [1]

[1] http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/svn-book.html#svn-ap-a-sect-8

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