Re: Why I love TortoiseSVN. (increasingly off-topic)

On 1/25/06, BobF <rfreeze@charter.net> wrote:
> Sonar. How would tsvn version wav files? I'm assuming
> entire files would be copied for each version the same as the
> notation files already discussed.

No, svn does reverse deltas on binary files too. See the following
excerpt from the svn (not Tortoise) documentation. Of course, in
practice, a small change to a compressed file such as a pdf or zip is
likely to result in a large number of changed bytes. I'm not sure
about wav files.

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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.

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Received on Wed Jan 25 16:02:04 2006