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From: "John Szakmeister" <john@szakmeister.net>
To: "Jim Geist" <jim@rodentia.net>
Cc: <users@subversion.tigris.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 24, 2004 2:39 PM
Subject: Re: Question about binary files
> 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
>
Doesn't change anything. The whole file still appears in the dump for both
revisions.
-- Jim
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Received on Sun Oct 24 23:47:57 2004