Re: perforce versus subversion

That's the most powerful solution I've come up with too.

However I expect that Installing a new diff manager for a given type
or changing the type of a file would require that all of the past
diffs be reprocessed. Perhaps a little painful.

--
Talden
On 8/31/06, Kenneth Porter <shiva@sewingwitch.com> wrote:
> --On Tuesday, August 29, 2006 8:59 AM -0600 Steve Strobel
> <steve.strobel@link-comm.com> wrote:
>
> > Even if a small change to the CAD data caused only a small change in the
> > text format, wouldn't the zipped file often still be very different?  It
> > seems to me that the only way this would be a significant advantage is if
> > the XML files were unzipped before being checked into Subversion.
>
> Good point. You'd want a standard compression format so that Subversion
> could unpack the archive and store a compressed diff of its contents. Which
> suggests that you need the ability to supply different diff systems for
> different MIME types.
>
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