I didn't mean for text, though that was the logical conclusion. I mean for the image and media repositories. SVN seems to be quite good and managing deltas between binaries these days...
On 1/14/07, Platonides Platonides@gmail.com wrote:
Alex Powell escribió:
Something that occured to me that might be a good idea (TM) is to link
up to
subversion for the file repositories. This would have big space
benefits, as
only deltas would be stored, and give a more powerful view to the data.
Storing diffs was talked before. It wasn't an improve, as space would be similar to the compressed text it's used now. And using the deltas to the full article source could be large for some articles.
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