Mark Phippard <markp...@gmail.com> writes: > > (Although as far as I can tell, we would have to extend the delta editor > > to allow us to send a fulltext against an existing file, and the > > optimization would only work for newer servers.) > > This is just from memory of a list conversation that probably happened > 10+ years ago now but ... if you use a generic WebDAV client with a > SVN server and you commit changes to an existing file the WebDAV > client is just sending the server the latest full text (no deltas) and > the server knows how to handle it. So theoretically some of what is > needed to support this sort of commit ought to already exist in our > server code.
With a bit more thought, sending a fulltext even to existing servers indeed shouldn't be an issue, as it can happen in the form of a delta against the empty source. Thanks, Evgeny Kotkov
