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

[J C L. <cl...@ka...>]

On Sat, 17 May 2003 23:10:05 +0100 
Neil Stewart <ne...@r0...> wrote:

> 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.

BitKeeper (of which I'm inordinately fond) takes the default approach of
checking in UUencoded versions of binary files.  As a one-size-fits-all
a[approach it works reasonably.  You can of course also add your own
diff/delta/etc tools with appropriate configs and it will willingly use
those methods instead for the files types you specify.

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