On Aug 9, 2011, at 12:19, Jon Stafford wrote: > To check my understanding, and to give half a conclusion - > > Every revision apart from the very initial revision of a file is stored as a > delta against some previous version.
I think even the initial revision of a file is stored as a delta -- against the empty revision 0. > I've checked in various versions of my database data zipped. Some with a > month of changes between each revision, some with the most trivial change > possible between revisions. Consider testing again with your data not zipped -- just check in the text file of the data. This might allow Subversion to compress it better and/or make more reasonable deltas.
