Hi! On Monday 05 March 2007, Matthias Julius wrote: > Bernhard D Rohrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > has anybody ever thought about using Gimp with Subversion? I'd love a > > module that allows me to make sense of my edited versions of an image. I > > couldn't find a plugin though :( > > Subversion or most other revision control systems are optimized for > text data. But, this doesn't mean it would work with images. It just > can not store differences between image versions and therefore it has > to store the whole file even if you only changed one pixel. >
That's not true. Subversion fully supports binary diffs. So if you have an uncompressed .bmp image and you changed one pixel, you'll get a very small diff stored. Of course, if your image is compressed or otherwise encoded in a "weird" way, the diff may be much more substantial. Maybe you're confusing Subversion with CVS where each version of a binary file is an entire copy. > I don't know of any RCS that would be better suited for binary data or > even be specialized for images. Like I said, Subversion has good support for binary diffs. So do other version control systems like Monotone. RCE by the originator of RCS ( http://www.aicas.com/rce.html ) can handle binary diffs, but only operates on a single byte at a time. If you want to handle compressed or encoded data efficiently, you may need to implement domain-specific logic. Rational ClearCase may have such functionality, but I didn't have any experience with it, so I can't tell you. > > But, why do you need a Gimp plugin for that? There are plenty of > graphical frontends for Subversion in case you don't like the command > line. I think what he meant was a way to view previous images or differences between various images by interfacing with Subversion. Regards, Shlomi Fish --------------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.shlomifish.org/ Chuck Norris wrote a complete Perl 6 implementation in a day but then destroyed all evidence with his bare hands, so no one will know his secrets. _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
