Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Some issues

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 06:11:15PM +0200, Matthieu Moy wrote:
> If you have a 1MB binary file managed by arch, all revisions modifying
> even a single bit of this  file will contain the full binary. You will
> quickly end up with a 100Mb archive.
> 
> You may  not find usefull  to reduce the  size of your archive  and of
> your changesets in this situation, but I do. 
> 

I have to agree here.  Where I work binary diffs is killer feature for
us because of the large binary files people check in (from the likes of
Cadence and homebrew cad tools)  We would quickly fill up filesystems.

Thats why people are using Synchronicity and Bitkeeper..

sri