Re: Howto prevent svn from storing deltas for binary files

On Thu 2004-10-07 at 10:27:33 -0400, you wrote
> 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.

Much more probably is that the size increase comes from side-effects,
which have nothing to do with the diffing algorithm (like BDB log
files, or the fact that BDB doesn't free empty space in its database).

> Or you just managed to hit a pathological case.

That would be compressed or encrypted files, since those - by
definition - shouldn't be much compressable anymore.

Regards,

        Benjamin.

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Received on Thu Oct 7 19:21:48 2004