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On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 09:11:06 -0500, "Martin Cole" <martin at martinjcole.com> wrote: > >I am starting to store a large binary file in cvs, as a test. > >The file is a 13Mb xxx.mdb file. > >After making minor alterations to the file and committing 4 times (each time with small alterations) I expected the repository version file to be ~60Mb, but it was only 20Mb. > >Does anyone know the combination to CVSNT server and TortoiseCVS client well enough to tell me if this is reasonable behavior, or will my file be getting mangled ? > > That sounds OK. CVS does try to store the differences between binary files but it isn't very efficient (as it's a text based diff). On some files it works better than others. Tony