[geeklog-devel] Graphics (was: Geeklog 1.7.1rc1 & looking ahead)

[Vincent Furia]

I a bit more reading later... Mercurial handles diffs between binary files
fine, but not very efficiently with compressed files (like just about every
image format).

But I agree with Dirk, it should be fine for the small files we're talking
about.

-Vinny

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 23:59, Dirk Haun <dirk at haun-online.de> wrote:

> Vincent Furia wrote:
>
> > Supposedly Hg handles binaries just fine:
> > http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/CvsConcepts#Binary_files
>
> Quoting from there:
>
> > For most binary files, this is very wasteful.
>
> That's what I meant. All the version control systems I know can't really
> handle binary diffs very well. It's okay if you only want to store binary
> files, but if they change often, the diffs aren't very efficient and are
> wasting space.
>
> Again, I don't really expect this to be much of a problem here.
>
> bye, Dirk
>
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