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[Gnu-arch-users] Re: Arch Versus CVS Versus Subversoin
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Matthew Palmer |
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[Gnu-arch-users] Re: Arch Versus CVS Versus Subversoin |
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Mon, 6 Dec 2004 14:16:45 +1100 |
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On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 02:53:54AM +0100, Andre Kuehne wrote:
> Andrew Suffield wrote:
> > On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 04:25:22PM -0800, Dustin Sallings wrote:
> > >
> > > On Dec 4, 2004, at 16:06, Tom Browder wrote:
> > >
> > > >Does arch offer or plan to offer those three features (CVS rtag
> > > >equivalent,
> > > >binary diff, CVSROOT equivalent)?
> > >
> > > There has been discussion of binary diffs a while back, but I don't
> > > remember quite what came out of it.
> >
> > Arch already has the only kind of binary diff that is possible.
>
> You consider "putting the original file and its replacement side by side"
> a binary diff?
For arbitrary binary formats, that *is* the only way of providing a
meaningful 'diff'. "That is what we had before, and this is what we have
now".
> > It would be possible to compress the changesets better but there is
> > little demand for this, to the point where nobody cares enough to do
> > it.
>
> This seems to be a popular statement when it comes to missing features,
> but you can say this about _everything_ not yet done, and it certainly
> doesn't give you a hint about demand.
If it were in such high demand, it *would* be implemented.
- Matt
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- [Gnu-arch-users] Arch Versus CVS Versus Subversoin, Tom Browder, 2004/12/04
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Arch Versus CVS Versus Subversoin, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2004/12/05
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Arch Versus CVS Versus Subversoin, Thomas Lord, 2004/12/06
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Arch Versus CVS Versus Subversoin, Stefan Monnier, 2004/12/06
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Arch Versus CVS Versus Subversoin, Florian Weimer, 2004/12/06
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Arch Versus CVS Versus Subversoin, Stefan Monnier, 2004/12/06
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Arch Versus CVS Versus Subversoin, Charles Duffy, 2004/12/06
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Arch Versus CVS Versus Subversoin, Bruce Stephens, 2004/12/06
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Arch Versus CVS Versus Subversoin, Charles Duffy, 2004/12/06
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Arch Versus CVS Versus Subversoin, Aaron Bentley, 2004/12/06
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Arch Versus CVS Versus Subversoin, Bruce Stephens, 2004/12/06