Jim Geist wrote:
> Hi -
>
> I'm evaluating Subversion for use on a fairly large game project.
> One of the features that got me interested was the ability to send/store
> diffs for binary files as well as text files.
>
> But when I tried checking in and changing a binary file, svn doesn't
> appear to send diffs. I checked in a large bitmap (~700k), then changed
> a very little data in the middle, then did a commit. Then I did a dump
> of those two revisions. The first, as expected, contains the whole 700k.
> But the second revision shows a change of the same size, even though
> it's apparent that the data is almost all identical. The size of the
> repository db directory was likewise increased by 700k.
>
> Anyone have any ideas? I'm running the precompiled svn-1.1.0 for
> Windows on XP, for the moment just using a file: repository on the local
> machine.
Try using 'svnadmin dump --incremental'.
-John
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Received on Sun Oct 24 23:39:59 2004