[Ffmpeg-devel] SVN dump

Attila Kinali attila
Wed Apr 18 20:59:21 CEST 2007


On Sat, 14 Apr 2007 23:19:21 -0600 (MDT)
Loren Merritt <lorenm at u.washington.edu> wrote:

> I wonder what svn-dump does that makes it so much more compressible than 
> the repository itself, and can git do the same?

Simple: every change is expressed by the full new version
of the file. This is said to be more portable, but i don't
know. For me it looks like a waste of bits.

			Attila Kinali

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