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Posted Apr 5, 2010 16:24 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Support large repositories! by marcH
Parent article: A proposed Subversion vision and roadmap

Of course the source formats being compressed doesn't prevent computing
deltas, but it does mean that the deltas might be larger than they would
otherwise be. (If they end up too large, you'll just end up storing a
sequence of snapshots.)


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Posted Apr 5, 2010 21:47 UTC (Mon) by marcH (subscriber, #57642) [Link]

> Of course the source formats being compressed doesn't prevent computing deltas, but it does mean that the deltas might be larger than they would otherwise be.

Every time I tried this, the delta was almost as big as the file itself. Would you have counter-examples?

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Posted Apr 5, 2010 23:14 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

No. You'll end up with a lot of snapshots rather than deltas, currently.

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