[gambit-list] Bootstrapping from the Gambit github repo

Hendrik Boom hendrik at topoi.pooq.com
Fri Apr 13 12:49:55 EDT 2012


On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 11:14:45AM -0400, Marc Feeley wrote:
> 
> And also, as far as I know, git stores the *whole* file as soon as 
> there is a change in the file (whether it is one byte or all the 
> bytes).

Even the ancient RCS didn't do that.  As far as I know, all source-code 
versioning systems store something like difference files to save space.
Some of them get wuite sophisticated.

-- hendrik



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