xdelta

[pohl <po...@screaming.org>]

Forgive me if this has been discussed already.  I read the design
goals (I'm salivating...good work) and noticed that SVN plans to
handle storing binaries gracefully in the repository.  One thing
the document didn't mention was how the storage of the binary
files would take place.  I thought the xdelta library would be
a good candidate mechanism for space-efficiency.

Has anybody given any thought to this?

http://www.xcf.berkeley.edu/~jmacd/xdelta.html
http://www.xcf.berkeley.edu/~jmacd/prcs.html

Re: xdelta

[Ben Collins-Sussman <su...@newton.collab.net>]

pohl <po...@screaming.org> writes:

> Forgive me if this has been discussed already.  I read the design
> goals (I'm salivating...good work) and noticed that SVN plans to
> handle storing binaries gracefully in the repository.  One thing
> the document didn't mention was how the storage of the binary
> files would take place.  I thought the xdelta library would be
> a good candidate mechanism for space-efficiency.
> 
> Has anybody given any thought to this?
> 
> http://www.xcf.berkeley.edu/~jmacd/xdelta.html
> http://www.xcf.berkeley.edu/~jmacd/prcs.html

We've been in discussions with Josh MacDonald (the author of xdelta)
for the last week.... more soon on this.  :)