[svnbook commit] r1789 - trunk/src/en/book

[cmpilato]

Author: cmpilato
Date: Fri Nov  4 09:13:13 2005
New Revision: 1789

Modified:
   trunk/src/en/book/appa.xml
Log:
* src/en/book/appa.xml
  Make some wording tweaks suggested by Ulrich 
  Eckhardt <eckhardt at satorlaser.com>, plus a colon-to-emdash
  tweak suggested by me with my O'Reilly hat on.


Modified: trunk/src/en/book/appa.xml
==============================================================================
--- trunk/src/en/book/appa.xml	(original)
+++ trunk/src/en/book/appa.xml	Fri Nov  4 09:13:13 2005
@@ -398,18 +398,17 @@
     <para>In the most general sense, Subversion handles binary files
       more gracefully than CVS does.  Because CVS uses RCS, it can
       only store successive full copies of a changing binary file.
-      But internally, Subversion expresses differences between files
-      using a binary-differencing algorithm, regardless of whether they
+      Subversion, however, expresses differences between files using a
+      binary-differencing algorithm, regardless of whether they
       contain textual or binary data.  That means that all files are
-      stored differentially (compressed) in the repository, and small
-      differences are always sent over the network.</para>
+      stored differentially (compressed) in the repository.</para>
     
     <para>CVS users have to mark binary files with
       <option>-kb</option> flags, to prevent data from being garbled
       (due to keyword expansion and line-ending translations).  They
       sometimes forget to do this.</para>
 
-    <para>Subversion takes the more paranoid route: first, it never
+    <para>Subversion takes the more paranoid route—first, it never
       performs any kind of keyword or line-ending translation unless
       you explicitly ask it do so (see <xref
       linkend="svn.advanced.props.special.keywords"/> and <xref