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Re: How to limit file revisions
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Jim Hyslop |
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Re: How to limit file revisions |
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Tue, 25 Oct 2005 23:48:23 -0400 |
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Arthur Barrett wrote:
> You may want to consider CVSNT Server (GPL, free, open source,
> Linux/Windows/Mac/Unix support) and use -kB option for binary files
> (it stores a binary diff rather than the entire binary image for each
> revision).
CVS breaks all files, whether binary or text, into "lines" where a line
is roughly defined as "any sequence of bytes preceded by ASCII LF
(0x0A)". Thus, all files store only the deltas required to generate the
previous revision. In the worst case, a file may contain no LF
characters and thus the entire file must be stored. Does CVSNT behave
differently?
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Jim Hyslop
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