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Re: Revision sizes...

From: Ian Anderson <i.tsvn_at_operation-sensory-overload.com>
Date: 2006-01-05 07:41:28 CET

Chris Ormerod wrote:
> The repository can't be smaller than the actual file sizes. I am pretty sure
> it only stores diffs of text, but if you have a 10mb PSD file and make 5
> changes with a commit in between then that would be 50MB I think. (Or does
> SVN store Diffs of binary files?)

SVN stores diffs of both text and binary files. I regularly commit small
changes to a data file that's 65MB; the repository rarely grows more
than a few KB in size for such a commit.

Ian

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