{Spam?} Re: Patch: update 4.3 changes for gcj

Paolo Bonzini paolo.bonzini@lu.unisi.ch
Wed Jan 10 16:29:00 GMT 2007


>  > Oh, I see now that you distribute the .class files and use them to build 
>  > libgcj.jar.  Is there a reason why you cannot checkin only the JAR file 
>  > instead?
> 
> It would have a tragic effect on version control.  svn treats archives
> as binaries, and does a total file replecement for each commit.

Ouch.  I understood that it used xdelta, since it manages binaries 
pretty easily.  My bad, sorry for the noise.

Paolo



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