Philip Martin <phi...@codematters.co.uk> writes: > Paul Hammant <p...@hammant.org> writes: > >> I'm making each revision with.. >> >> dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M count=500 2>/dev/null > >> path/to/file/under/versionControl.dat >> >> .. which is random enough to completely thwart delta analysis of the file. >> That's slow enough in itself, but I'm only checking the time of the commit. > > The standard client always sends deltas even for cases like yours where
I'm assuming /dev/urandom as /dev/zero doesn't really make sense here. -- Philip