From: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 08:23:11 GMT
Subject: Re: Feature request: git-svn dcommit should send deltas upstream
Message-ID: <20080829082311.GA7128@yp-box.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <87myj0f3mb.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de>

Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> wrote:
> 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...

-- 
Eric Wong