Maybe its best to rethink that "must be stored as a tar/bz2" requirement.
What is that requirement anyway?
On 7/2/07, Talden <talden@gmail.com> wrote:
> Since the tarball is compressed (bz2) expecting Subversions diffing to save
> you any space at all is probably a lost cause.
>
> If you're going to expect many revisions of that tarball you're going to
> need to consider at the least storing it without the compression - though
> that will create it's own headaches in terms of working copy storage and
> transmission (at least once) I expect.
>
> --
> Talden
>
>
> On 7/3/07, Andreas Hasenack <andreas@mandriva.com.br> wrote:
> > I have a situation where I will probably have to store in svn a large
> > blob, like 230Mb. It's a tarball that only contains source code, but I
> > need it stored as the tarball.
> >
> > I'm wondering if there is any best procedure about updating this tarball
> > considering the amount of space that will be used.
> >
> > For example, say tarball-1.0.tar.bz2 is 230Mb and tarball-1.1.tar.bz2 is
> > about the same size. It has a few differences, though (it's a new
> > version). Usually, one would:
> > - svn add tarball-1.1.tar.bz2
> > - svn del tarball-1.0.tar.bz2
> > - svn commit
> >
> > If I did a rename before to 1.1 and then updated the tarball, would it
> > be better? Like:
> > - svn rename tarball-1.0.tar.bz2 tarball-1.1.tar.bz2
> > - cp ~/tarball-1.1.tar.bz2 .
> > - svn commit
> >
> > Or even:
> > - svn rename tarball-1.0.tar.bz2 tarball-1.1.tar.bz2
> > - svn commit
> > - cp ~/tarball-1.1.tar.bz2 .
> > - svn commit
> >
> > I tried it here, but saw no noticeable difference in the repository
> > size. The end result was sizeof(1.0)+sizeof(1.1) in all cases. Is there
> > some other way or is that it?
> >
> >
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