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Re: Are revisions made of diffs?

From: Erik Huelsmann <ehuels_at_gmail.com>
Date: 2005-11-25 14:51:17 CET

On 11/25/05, Célio Cidral Junior <ccidral.newsbox@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Let me know if I have understood correctly what is stated in the
> Subversion's home page:
>
> "- Costs are proportional to change size, not data size
>
> In general, the time required for a Subversion operation is
> proportional to the size of the changes resulting from that operation,
> not to the absolute size of the project in which the changes are
> taking place. This is a property of the Subversion repository model."
>
> Does this mean that Subversion stores in a revision only diffs of each
> changed file instead of each file entirely?

That's correct.

bye,

Erik.
Received on Fri Nov 25 14:56:58 2005

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