RFC: handlings large files via fragmenting

[Adrian Wilkins]

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bazaar-request at lists.canonical.com wrote:
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> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 13:02:21 -0400
> From: Aaron Bentley <aaron at aaronbentley.com>

> Indeed, which is why I said "This requires a line-based delta approach".
>  I'm well aware that groupcompress is not one.
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Am I being dense, or is a line-based delta less suitable for the kinds of files
that are likely to be large? Bitmap graphics, databases, that sort of thing?
About the only line-based format that I can imagine getting very large is
something like the output of mysqldump.

Or do line-based deltas work equally well on binary files?


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