On 9 Dec 2014, at 14:35, Frank Loeffler <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 08:43:21AM -0000, Bitbucket wrote: >> Summary: Cactus: disable compression in included pdf files >> >> this is to help the VCS to keep the repository small > > Is this really so much of an issue? Compression of these pdf is > something nice to have outside of the repositories - let's say when > publishing them on a web site, or downloading them.
Compression means that the entire file changes every time there is a change to a part of it. So the repository cannot efficiently store just the differences. So every time there is a change to the documentation, the repository size goes up by the size of the file. Since everybody checks out the whole repository, this affects everybody's disk space. I imagine that compression gives us about 50% only. Roland, how much does compression save? -- Ian Hinder http://numrel.aei.mpg.de/people/hinder
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