Re: Howto prevent svn from storing deltas for binary files

On Oct 7, 2004, at 5:35 AM, Thorsten.Huhn@bahn.de wrote:

> When doing a usuability test with svn I found that a library of about
> 9 MB
> increased the repository size by about 24-28 MB.
> My conclusion is that a library as a result of a compilation might
> change
> completely leading to a storage effort for tracing the changes that is
> higher than original file itself.

Sounds like a broken binary-diff algorithm to me. Or you just managed
to hit a pathological case. But 3 times the data to represent the
change is just really bad seeing how the whole point of storing diffs
is to make the data smaller.

Scott

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Received on Thu Oct 7 16:28:01 2004