On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 13:01 -0500, Toby Johnson wrote:
> Toralf Förster wrote:
>
> >Nice feature but rsync reduce also the amount of bytes to transfer.
> >Althought this could be a hard work it is possible to integrate the
> >logic of rsync into subversion and btw reduce the amount of bytes to
> >transfer, isn't it ?
> >
> >
> Subversion doesn't have the problem that rsync was written to solve,
> which namely is to efficiently synchronize two (probably remote)
> directories when neither side knows the contents of the other. Since a
> Subversion client already has the "base" version of each file, sending
> hashes back and forth is not necessary, and so rsync is pointless.
>
Thanks, clear and comprehensible answer
Toralf
Received on Thu Feb 3 10:19:24 2005