I think it's more like rsync + git. You have copies of previous versions, and ju... | Hacker News

Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit

		dubya on Feb 26, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Bandwidth needs halved by new compression written ... I think it's more like rsync + git. You have copies of previous versions, and just ask for their hash to figure out which previous version to diff against the current version, then send the diff.

calinet6 on Feb 26, 2013 [–]

I think that's a good analogy; it's rsync with versioning. Very cool.

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact