Re: Auto add files in a directory?

Andrew A. Raines wrote:

>Jeff Bowden <jlb@houseofdistraction.com> writes:
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>>Andrew A. Raines wrote:
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>>> tar --exclude \*~ -cf - Mail | bzip2 -9 >mail.tar.bz2
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>>Are you being sarcastic or are you implying that subversion can
>>somehow do diffs between different versions of a .tar.bz2 file?
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>I wasn't being sarcastic. Is the binary-ness of a compressed
>archive different than that of a file, to Subversion?
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Well, my understanding of bzip2 compression, and block-oriented encoding
schemes in general, is that small changes to the source lead to large
changes in output such that nothing would be gained by storing diffs.

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Received on Wed Mar 3 19:53:13 2004