RE: [GD-General] Re: asset & document management

[Anders N. <br...@ho...>]

Why aren't they storing the most recent file and then doing the binary diffs
backwards? So they store the diff of how to get from the newest file to the
next newest file. That way the newest file would be fast to use, you can
save full files every time you branch etc. Might be slower to get old
versions but that's mostly for backup/safety anyway.

Anders Nilsson

>> It would be nice if they supported some sort of xdelta-like diff storage
>> instead, but it seems like it's not a massive issue nowadays when huge
>> drives are cheap.

Neil:
>I asked Perforce about this a while ago (when we first started using it, in
>fact) and IIRC they said that although storing binary deltas would save
disk
>space, it would hurt performance quite badly, as they would have to
>construct enormous files from lots of tiny changes. They went for the
>performance option, which is fair enough.