On 2019-11-01, at 12:39 PM, likejudo wrote:
> I was wondering if this isn't space inefficient - and how does it become
> superior to a VCS by storing snapshots rather than deltas?
Some people will cite studies showing that the pack files have better
compression than you'd normally expect;
On 02.11.19 16:20, Konstantin Khomoutov wrote:
> how does it become
> superior to a VCS by storing snapshots rather than deltas?
Deltas based on what? As soon as there are merge operations, you either
run into ambiguities or the code is forced to prefer one branch over the
other. Branches and
On Fri, Nov 01, 2019 at 12:39:18PM -0700, likejudo wrote:
> In Scott Chacone's book ProGit, he says that Git is different from VCS'es
> in that it stores entire files rather than deltas.
> I was wondering if this isn't space inefficient - and how does it become
> superior to a VCS by storing
