Branko Čibej <[email protected]>:
> On 22.01.2021 05:23, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> > Notably: dump-load-format.txt does not describe the delta format. I
> > have since seen hints in the SVN Book that version 3 uses some kind of
> > binary delta compression. But the SVN book does not describe either
> > of these details; it's not even clear enough for me to be sure I'm
> > not hallucinating the "binary" part.
>
> See notes/svndiff. It describes the format of the binary deltas and how to
> produce target data given plaintext source + delta. (It doesn't describe how
> to _produce_ the deltas).
That sounds like it ouyght to be folded into the dump format description.
Does anyonne have any objection to me doing that?
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