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From: | Jacob Gorm Hansen |
Subject: | Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Arch Versus CVS Versus Subversoin |
Date: | Mon, 20 Dec 2004 13:03:47 +0100 |
User-agent: | Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (X11/20040926) |
Florian Weimer wrote:
Some people use version control systems for backup and file sharing purposes, and might use it to distribute compiled binaries. 8-)
The problem is that executables do not delta-compress well with stuff like xdelta. I do have an implementation of an xdelta-like algorithm,but optimised for binary diffing of executables that I implemented at while ago. If anyone is interested in playing with it let
me know, and I'll put it up for (GPLed) download. For a build system which records the result of every build it would probably be a good fit. For software patch distribution it might be interesting as well. Jacob
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