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(a)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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