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Re: not storing diffs of binary files

From: Ryan Schmidt <subversion-2011a_at_ryandesign.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2011 19:53:29 -0500

On Aug 9, 2011, at 12:19, Jon Stafford wrote:

> To check my understanding, and to give half a conclusion -
>
> Every revision apart from the very initial revision of a file is stored as a delta against some previous version.

I think even the initial revision of a file is stored as a delta -- against the empty revision 0.

> I've checked in various versions of my database data zipped. Some with a month of changes between each revision, some with the most trivial change possible between revisions.

Consider testing again with your data not zipped -- just check in the text file of the data. This might allow Subversion to compress it better and/or make more reasonable deltas.
Received on 2011-08-10 02:54:07 CEST

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