On 2021-07-30 22:42:25 -0500, Karl Fogel wrote:
> On 30 Jul 2021, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> > Increase the svndiff window size, so a single byte addition at the start
> > of the file doesn't result in $filesize/100KB delta ops?
>
> Maybe? I *think* that's a rare case, and if it is then it's probably not
> worth the implementation complexity. I believe that when large blobby files
> get changed they tend to get changed all over, even when the semantic change
> is small (partly because their formats often have built-in compression or
> encryption).
This would still be useful in other contexts. I have big text files
for which the only changes are near the beginning, mainly because
of information stored in reverse-date order (e.g. changelogs).
These are not huge files ("only" several MBs), but still among the
biggest files of my repositories, and they can change quite often.
A textual diff command can handle them, so why not Subversion's
internal diff...
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