Re: Subversion for object code

Helmut Zeisel wrote on Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 10:41:13 +0100:
> My interpretation of this is that "representation-sharing" works well
> enough for compiled C++ code, i.e. if I change 2% of source code and
> commit the changed objects and libs, then typically a comparable
> amount (+/- 2%) of the object code is additionally added to the
> repostory and the remaining +/- 98% can be reused from previously
> committed object code.

Representation sharing works only on complete files. (If two files are
not byte-for-byte identical, it never kicks in.) What you see would be
the xdelta binary-diff algorithm being efficient.
Received on 2012-03-01 08:08:29 CET