[svnbook commit] r1791 - trunk/src/en/book

[Joshua Varner]

On 11/4/05, cmpilato <svnbook-dev at red-bean.com> wrote:
> Author: cmpilato
> Date: Fri Nov  4 09:35:55 2005
> New Revision: 1791
>
> Modified:
>    trunk/src/en/book/ch09.xml
> Log:
> * src/en/book/ch09.xml
>   Clarify the differences between --incremental and --deltas by better
>   explaining both of them.  Suggested by Seth Arnold <seth.arnold at suse.de>
>
>
> Modified: trunk/src/en/book/ch09.xml
> ==============================================================================
> --- trunk/src/en/book/ch09.xml  (original)
> +++ trunk/src/en/book/ch09.xml  Fri Nov  4 09:35:55 2005
> @@ -4363,20 +4363,45 @@
[snip]
> +          <para>The second useful option is <option>--deltas</option>.
> +            This switch causes <command>svnadmin dump</command> to,
> +            instead of emitting fulltext representations of file
> +            contents and property lists, emit only deltas of those
> +            items against their previous versions.  This reduces (in
> +            some cases, drastically) the size of the dumpfile that
> +            <command>svnadmin</command> creates.  There are, however,
                                 above you use "svnadmin dump"
> +            disadvantages to using this option—deltified
> +            dumpfiles are more CPU intensive to create, cannot be
> +            operated on by <command>svndumpfilter</command>, and tend
> +            not to compress as well as their non-deltified couterparts
                                                                      
           counterparts
> +            when using third-party tools like <command>gzip</command>
> +            and <command>bzip2</command>.</para>
[snip]

Josh