Re: Subversion branch deltification policy is more space-hungry than CVS

[Greg Hudson <gh...@MIT.EDU>]

On Wed, 2004-06-02 at 06:36, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2004-05-29 12:49:57 -0400, Greg Hudson wrote:
> > This argument makes perfect sense, but it turns out to be wrong.  It is
> > only when lines of development diverge that you get multiple plaintext
> > representations of a file, not simply when a new copy-ID is created.
> [...]
> 
> OK. So, if I understand, files from the "trunk" are not necessarily
> represented as plaintext in the repository

Correct.

> , and a checkout of the trunk may take a long time.

Probably not, even if there is a great deal of this going on, because
skip-deltas kick in at 32 revs of a file, and prevent the need for
assembling more than O(lg(n)) deltas.


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