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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Arch Versus CVS Versus Subversoin
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Andrew Suffield |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Arch Versus CVS Versus Subversoin |
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Mon, 6 Dec 2004 02:15:23 +0000 |
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On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 08:09:30PM -0600, John A Meinel wrote:
> >Yes, arch supports binary diffs in exactly the same sense as subversion.
> >
> >It doesn't do delta compression on them. That's irrelevant.
>
> It is not irrelevant, people care about it.
People care about the price of oil as well, but that's still irrelevant.
> Yes, I understand why it does that. And I'm not really advocating that
> it changes. I might argue that we would be better off storing the md5sum
> of the previous version rather than a complete copy of it, but generally
> that is irrelevant.
That would be broken. Arch changesets are reversible.
> Admittedly, I'm talking about a small population (about 10+ people), but
> when I was taught CVS I was warned that binary files are not "diffed"
> but store in complete form each time. (Obviously this should have been
> "delta compressed"). I have also heard this argument from independent
> sources (as mentioned, about 10 times). I realize all of us are using
> the wrong terminology here. But I know that is what they meant, because
> the complaint was about the size of the archive, and how much better SVN
> is because it only stores the changes.
The difference in space consumed is not all that large for typical
applications. It's not a big deal. As always, nobody cares about it
enough to bother to implement it. Including you.
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- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Arch Versus CVS Versus Subversoin, (continued)
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Arch Versus CVS Versus Subversoin, John A Meinel, 2004/12/05
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Arch Versus CVS Versus Subversoin, Andrew Suffield, 2004/12/05
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Arch Versus CVS Versus Subversoin, John A Meinel, 2004/12/05
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Arch Versus CVS Versus Subversoin,
Andrew Suffield <=
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Arch Versus CVS Versus Subversoin, John A Meinel, 2004/12/05
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Arch Versus CVS Versus Subversoin, Andrew Suffield, 2004/12/05
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Arch Versus CVS Versus Subversoin, John A Meinel, 2004/12/05