Hi,
no one any additional ideas about it here?
Should I post it to the dev list?
Thanks,
Martin
On Thursday 07 December 2006 11:14, Martin Scharrer wrote:
> On Thursday 07 December 2006 10:52, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> > On 12/7/2006 4:34 AM, Rob Hubbard wrote:
> > > Hello Martin,
> > >
> > > The size of a delta is not always relative to the *immediately*
> > > previous revision.
> > >
> > > In order for the implementation to be able to calculate quickly (O(log
> > > n) rather than O(n)) the difference between a pair of revisions, the
> > > revisions are formed into a kind of binary tree.
> > >
> > > That is definitely neither a bug nor a design problem.
> > > It probably explains the variable revision sizes you're seeing.
> >
> > It would explain variable revision sizes, but his seem more variable
> > than I'd expect. At rev 2, the diff was 15k, but the delta was 470K.
> > That's bigger than necessary for just the diff against rev 1, but
> > smaller than necessary to hold a diff against rev 0.
>
> I saw this as well. Also if you keep deleting and readded this lines in the
> file (using a shell loop) the delta sizes stay about the same:
>
> Size - Rev
>
> 467 9 Deleted lines
> 2 10 Added lines
> 467 11 Del
> 2 12 Add
> 467 13 ..
> 2 14 ..
> 467 15
> 2 16
> 467 17
> 2 18
> 467 19
> [...]
> 2 224
> 467 225
> 2 226
> 467 227
> 2 228
> 467 229
>
> So I think it's not about skip-deltas, because the sizes should be not that
> constant using skip-deltas. Also after some revs the difference to almost
> all earlier revs is either 0 or about 16k in this special test repository.
> So if it would be just because of skip-deltas to delta shouldn't be so big.
> And note: this only happens when you DELETE lines from the files. ALL
> deltas of ADDING only revs are <2k (--> 16k text zipped). If it because of
> skip-deltas the impact to both deleting and adding lines revs should be
> about the same, shouldn't it?
>
> > Is there some debug mode that can tell you exactly what is stored in a
> > delta?
>
> I used 'svndump --incremental --deltas -r<N>' to get the delta of a
> specific file in one rev and most of all the the size of it. Now you just
> need software to interprete this delta.
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