On 15.09.2016 12:19, Martin Fuller wrote:
> On 14 September 2016 at 21:11, Stefan Küng <tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com
> <mailto:tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> On 14.09.2016 21:14, Martin Fuller wrote:
>> > I work with a few large text files in SVN, say 50MB, and our server is
>> > not on a LAN. When I use "SVN Show Log" on a large file and then
>> > "Compare revisions" Tortoise downloads 2 full copies of the file, which
>> > takes 80 seconds The actual diff may take 5 seconds if not much
>> > changed. It would be much quicker if it downloaded diffs instead.
>> > "Show changes" also downloads 2 full copies of the file.
>> >
>> > Compare my current revision and another revision, "Show changes" => just
>> > download 1 diff from my current revision.
>> > Compare a revision before my current and a revision after my current =>
>> > download 2 diffs from current.
>> > Compare 2 revisions both before / after my current => download a diff
>> > from current to the nearer revision, then a diff between the revisions.
>> > Compare 2 revisions with no current version => download 1 full file (the
>> > earlier one?) and 1 diff.
>> >
>> > Currently I work round this by keeping a local copy of every revision
>> > for a few key files. It is really inefficient in disk space because
>> > there are lots of small changes.
>>
>> Use the "Show changes as unified diff" feature - that will only fetch
>> the diff.
>
> "Show changes as unified diff" also downloads 50MB (one full file). The
> diffs themselves were less than 100KB.
Then you have to update the server: newer servers only send the diff.
> I would like to use "Compare revisions" because it gives more context.
Well yes, it gives more context because it has both full files. And to
get that, they have to be downloaded.
Stefan
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