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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Some issues
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Andrew Suffield |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Some issues |
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Wed, 9 Jun 2004 17:16:13 +0100 |
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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".
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.
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- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Some issues, (continued)
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Some issues, Andrew Suffield, 2004/06/09
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Some issues, Matthieu Moy, 2004/06/09
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Some issues, Andrew Suffield, 2004/06/09
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Some issues, Florian Weimer, 2004/06/09
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Some issues, Charles Duffy, 2004/06/09
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Some issues, Florian Weimer, 2004/06/09
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Some issues, Tom Lord, 2004/06/14
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Some issues,
Andrew Suffield <=
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Some issues, Florian Weimer, 2004/06/09
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Some issues, Andrew Suffield, 2004/06/09
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Some issues, Tom Lord, 2004/06/14
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Some issues, Florian Weimer, 2004/06/22
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Some issues, Tom Lord, 2004/06/22
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Some issues, James Blackwell, 2004/06/23
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Some issues, Tom Lord, 2004/06/23
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Some issues, Tom Lord, 2004/06/14
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Some issues, Florian Weimer, 2004/06/22
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Some issues, Matthieu Moy, 2004/06/09