Yes but ANY is a form of lossy compression. You lost the actual details of what was removed. Also it can only be used for removals and yields no benefit for additions.
On the other hand REPEAT is lossless compression. However if you apply a general-purpose compression like gzip on top of the patch you probably get just as good compression without needing any special tokens. In my experience repeat is more useful in compact binary formats where you can use fewer bytes to encode it then either the term itself or a reference to the term in some lookup table. On 14/10/2016 17:09, "Andy Seaborne" <[email protected]> wrote: These two together seem a bit contradictory. The advantage of ANY, with versions, is that it is form of compression.
