Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
>
> On Sep 4, 2005, at 4:18 AM, Michael Bartholomäus wrote:
>
>> Hi again,
>>
>> still I am a student of computer science writing my diploma thesis
>> about
>> "revision control of XML data in the context of a CMS".
>>
>> Are there any citable (scientific?) publications about the
>> binary differencing algorithm (vdelta?) Subversion uses?
>>
>
> Subversion 1.0 and 1.1 use the vdelta algorithm to produce binary diffs.
>
> Subversion 1.2 and later use the xdelta algorithm to produce binary
> diffs.
>
> Both of the algorithms are public, published papers. Just google for
> them.
Last time I looked, the vdelta spec was only available on in the ACM
(members-only) digital library.
-- Brane
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