Ok, I think I can answer my own question. I failed to notice that there is a "compress file" checkbox when saving. So I ended up saving compressed files, which of course differ very much.
Thanks anyway! Jonas Am 16.08.15 um 19:08 schrieb Jonas Eschenburg: > I noted that repeatedly saving the same project produces very distinct > files. > > Just try the following: Open some blend file. In my case, it was the BMW > bemchmark from Blender's demo files. Save it twice using either "Save > Copy" or "Save As". Then use LZMA compression (xz) to compare: > > $ ls -l bmw*.blend > -rw-r--r-- 1 jonas wheel 3150509 16 Aug 18:45 bmw1.blend > -rw-r--r-- 1 jonas wheel 3150587 16 Aug 18:45 bmw2.blend > $ cat bmw1.blend | xz -9 | wc -c > 2975856 > $ cat bmw1.blend bmw1.blend | xz -9 | wc -c > 2976400 > $ cat bmw2.blend bmw2.blend | xz -9 | wc -c > 2978000 > $ cat bmw1.blend bmw2.blend | xz -9 | wc -c > 5585604 > > It seems that most of both files is completely distinct. I'm not only > trusting in xz here, I even wrote my own binary comparison tool. FYI, I > disabled file compression in Blender User Preferences->File->Compress File. > > Could somebody give a hint on what is happening here? > > Jonas > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
