Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The process of forming a delta at the mouth of a river.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare The formation of a delta or of deltas.
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- noun The
formation of adelta or deltas.
Etymologies
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Examples
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If both the current version and previous version of the file are less than a certain size 16MB, the previous version will be considered for "deltafication", which is done by a background job.
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This deltafication mechanism applies to the database storage layer.
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However, a user checks-out a file from the target branch (DEV), makes changes, and checks-in a new version of the file into this branch (DEV), a new chain is started and no deltafication happens.
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The results from deltafication vary greatly depending on what type of file it is, and the nature of the changes.
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However, with shelvesets, no deltafication happens.
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Next, if the user once again checks-out this same file from the target branch, makes changes, and checks-in a new version to this branch (DEV), then the previous version of the file in the target branch (DEV) will be considered a candidate for deltafication.
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Only when the first real change is made in this new branch, is a new deltafication chain is started for changed files.
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The TFS deltafication diff algorithm makes heavy use of compression, so compressibility of the data makes a big difference.
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Following the branch operation, a user checks-out a file from the source branch (MAIN), makes changes (edits), and checks-in a new version of this file with these changes, The previous version of this file (which is now used by both the MAIN and DEV branches in this example) will be considered for deltafication.
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