[cvsnt] Does this appear to be ok ?

[Tony Hoyle]

On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 09:11:06 -0500, "Martin Cole"
<martin at martinjcole.com> wrote:

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>I am starting to store a large binary file in cvs, as a test.
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>The file is a 13Mb xxx.mdb file.
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>After making minor alterations to the file and committing 4 times (each time with small alterations) I expected the repository version file to be ~60Mb, but it was only 20Mb.
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>Does anyone know the combination to CVSNT server and TortoiseCVS client well enough to tell me if this is reasonable behavior, or will my file be getting mangled ?
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That sounds OK.  CVS does try to store the differences between binary
files but it isn't very efficient (as it's a text based diff).  On
some files it works better than others.

Tony