[Gnu-arch-users] Re: Arch Versus CVS Versus Subversoin

[Matthew Palmer]

On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 02:53:54AM +0100, Andre Kuehne wrote:
> Andrew Suffield wrote:
> > On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 04:25:22PM -0800, Dustin Sallings wrote:
> > > 
> > > On Dec 4, 2004, at 16:06, Tom Browder wrote:
> > > 
> > > >Does arch offer or plan to offer those three features (CVS rtag 
> > > >equivalent,
> > > >binary diff, CVSROOT equivalent)?
> > > 
> > >   There has been discussion of binary diffs a while back, but I don't 
> > > remember quite what came out of it.
> > 
> > Arch already has the only kind of binary diff that is possible.
> 
> You consider "putting the original file and its replacement side by side"
> a binary diff?

For arbitrary binary formats, that *is* the only way of providing a
meaningful 'diff'.  "That is what we had before, and this is what we have
now".

> > It would be possible to compress the changesets better but there is
> > little demand for this, to the point where nobody cares enough to do
> > it.
> 
> This seems to be a popular statement when it comes to missing features,
> but you can say this about _everything_ not yet done, and it certainly
> doesn't give you a hint about demand.

If it were in such high demand, it *would* be implemented.

- Matt

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