Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Some issues

[Florian Weimer]

* Andrew Suffield:

> On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 06:01:51PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> * Andrew Suffield:
>> 
>> > The hard part is writing a patch. xdelta has no such equivalent. The
>> > only thing it does is delta-compression. tla has no real use for that.
>> 
>> This is simply not true.  Version control makes perfect sense even if
>> you don't have fuzzy merging algorithms.
>
> And tla supports it just fine. Your complaint was that it does not
> support fuzzy merging for things which do not support fuzzy merging;
> my response is "duh".

No, my complaint was that some file types for which history can be
stored efficiently, but tla fails to provide that feature (which
translates to "not being able to store them at all" in some cases).

> As has been said many times before, delta-compression is completely
> orthogonal and involves no format changes to anything. I believe IBM
> actually sell some storage devices which do it opportunistically for
> all files, for the ultimate variety.

Certainly not for compressed arch changesets. 8-)

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