Bzr development stopped

Jelmer Vernooij jelmer at samba.org
Thu Nov 29 15:37:45 UTC 2012


On Thu, 2012-11-29 at 16:25 +0100, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Nov 2012, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> 
> > Neither Bazaar nor Git simply store the difference between the old and
> > the new version of a file. They both store the difference between the
> > new file and whatever other file in the repository is most suitable.
> 
> For git, that’s wrong, it never stores differences.
It does - I was talking about pack files, which are a key part of both
bzr and git.

> On the other hand, it’s got a pack format, which
> does, indeed, do delta compression between objects,
> but that doesn’t regularily come into play, especially
> not on the server side of a hosted repository.
I don't think that's true, deltas in pack files are regularly used.

Cheers,

Jelmer





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