[cvsnt] Efficient storage of binary files using binary deltas

Tony Hoyle tony.hoyle at march-hare.com
Wed Jul 6 15:21:18 BST 2005


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Oliver Giesen wrote:
> Also note that even this will only show an effect if there are a few
> revisions of the file and they all have been committed with the -kB
> flag enabled.

..because the HEAD revision is always stored literally, so it's always 
at its most inneficient :)

If size is really that imporant use -kBz which will give the smallest 
possible size (zipped binary deltas).

Tony



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