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But then mercurial is the same, the abstraction is about file content, the diff compression is an internal detail of the storage format like packs.
by tonfa 13y ago
But then mercurial is the same, the abstraction is about file content, the diff compression is an internal detail of the storage format like packs.
- tomlu 13y agoYeah for sure. Mercurial is great too. I was thinking of SVN which does store its commits as diffs, which makes it brittle (anyone that has tried to use the svn admin tools to rewrite the repository will know what I mean).