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Re: Feature request: git-svn dcommit should send deltas upstream

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EWEric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Date
Aug 29, 2008, 08:23 UTC
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Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> wrote:
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> Looking at my network traffic and the Perl code, it seems to me that
> git-svn fails to create a diff (delta) before sending data to the
> server.  As a result, a few changes in a multi-megabyte file lead to a
> large upload (similar to the situation with CVS).  git-svn should be
> able to compute this diff in all cases because it has got an up-to-date
> copy of the current revision in the Subversion repository.
> 
> As far as I can tell, this can't be fixed with a one-liner; some handles
> need to be passed down to the code that actually handles the upload.

Odd. Can you verify that svn(1) does not send full files in this case, too?

It's been too long since I've looked at the SVN TxDelta API, but I thought SVN::TxDelta::apply would take care of the delta computation for us...

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Eric Wong
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  2. Eric WongAug 29, 2008
  3. Florian WeimerAug 29, 2008
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  5. Junio C HamanoAug 31, 2008
  6. Florian WeimerAug 31, 2008
  7. Eric WongSep 1, 2008
  8. Florian WeimerSep 1, 2008

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