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Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 14:51:46 -0400
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Subject: Re: Versioning
From: Ryan Smith <ryan.justin.smith@gmail.com>
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I was actually looking for a doc/html store that could be used to store
frequent weekly updates where 1% of most files will change.  This would
result in 52 copies of each file a year.  I think I will try Git or
Subversion for now.

Thanks for the help,
-Ryan

On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 7:57 AM, Torgeir Veimo <torgeir@netenviron.com>wrote:

> On 29 March 2011 21:42, Jukka Zitting <jzitting@adobe.com> wrote:
> >
> > Ryan Smith asked:
> >> Does Jackrabbit save a whole new separate copy of the file with the
> >> new changes in the DataStore, or are only the differences saved?
> >
> > Jackrabbit doesn't store deltas of changes, so a new copy is created if
> even a single byte of a file has changed. The data store avoids creating new
> copies during checkin only when the binary property is unmodified.
>
> If you need compact, versioned storage of large binary files, you can
> roll your own versioning setup, and use a binary delta library.
>
> There's one alternative at http://sourceforge.net/projects/javaxdelta/
> (disclaimer: I've been involved in creating this library).
>
> --
> -Tor
>

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