My guess is that you will be better off generating a non-compressed PDF to
reduce repository bloat, if you think that you will be changing it a lot,
because Fossil can do better diff compression that way.  The downside would
be that the PDFs will be bigger (of course).


Bill


On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 3:03 AM, Tomek Kott <tkott.s...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Sorry, I think the answer to that is "it depends". For example do you care
> about having a small repository? Are you worried about corruption? For me,
> I wouldn't think twice about it. Even a thousand commits, each with their
> own pdf of even 1MB is still only 1GB. Unless these are big PDF's, I
> wouldn't worry about it too much.
>
> Then again, I have no direct experience in this regard. I've used fossil
> for LabView programming, the files for which are binary and I don't think
> very compressible. But even 866 files taking up 40 MB, with about 100
> commits, some of which change a large minority of files, the fossil repo is
> still only 400 MB. I wouldn't call that bloated, but YMMV.
>
> Tomek
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 7:46 PM, Guilherme P. de Freitas <
> guilhe...@gpfreitas.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> Thanks for your answers, but the question is: won't that bloat the
>> repository too much?
>>
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