Re: Default value for global-ignores - Import excluded .so files

But these binary files may be internally compressed (even if only by RLL)
which would make a 1 bit change have a rather large effect...

plus chaning an image file usually results is a massive change to the bits
of the image (even if you only tweaked the contrast by 0.1%)

2009/2/24 Tyler <tyler_at_cryptio.net>

> On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 04:53:57PM +0100, Jan Hendrik wrote:
> > up to 25% larger. Now being binary stuff any minor (non-)change
> > will increase the repository by more or less the whole size. You'd
> > pretty soon run out of disk space. There are better means to back
>
> I believe this is incorrect. svn uses binary diffs on the backend, so
> unless TIFF and .PSD are quite volatile, small changes to the file
> should result in small diffs and small increases in the file size on the
> backend.
>
> tyler
>
>

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