[slondr]

Mercurial has the obvious correct answer to this problem: Store diffs with snapshot checkpoints. That is, store diffs, but once you reach a critical number of diffs, store a snapshot instead of a diff so you can efficiently compute any specific commit state without storing snapshots for every commit.

[Dylan16807]

> Mercurial has the obvious correct answer to this problem: Store diffs with snapshot checkpoints.

That's how the git backend works for most of its storage.

It's a fool's errand to look at the conceptual model and start making claims about performance.

[actionfromafar]

Ah, so CVS is like GIF, git is like MPEG without keyframes, and Mercurial is like MPEG with keyframes.

[agumonkey]

Quite an apt metaphor :)

Now where are the hevc and av1 of versionning system ?