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Re:Snowtrack – a new version control software for graphic de... by QuadrupleA on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @10:52AM (#27435948)
Some comments here about delta compression on image assets and compressed formats - this page from the Fossil SCM has a really interesting discussion of the issues involved: https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/image-format-vs-re...
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Re:Snowtrack – a new version control software for graphic de... by stereosteve on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @11:25AM (#27436419)
Yeah this is cool analysis!

Looking at Fossil's delta code it uses 16 byte blocks and a sliding window when finding deltas:

https://fossil-scm.org/home/file?ci=trunk&name=src/delta.c&l...

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Re:Snowtrack – a new version control software for graphic de... by sebastian_io on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @11:02AM (#27436110)
This is incredibly helpful as I was looking for something like this for weeks. Thanks a lot for sharing! This looks super useful
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