  Functions of bounded deformation ($BD$) arise naturally in the study of
fracture and damage in a geometrically linear context. They are related to
functions of bounded variation ($BV$), but are less well understood. We discuss
here the relation to $BV$ under additional regularity assumptions, which may
require the regular part of the strain to have higher integrability or the jump
set to have finite area or the Cantor part to vanish. On the positive side, we
prove that $BD$ functions which are piecewise affine on a Caccioppoli partition
are in $GSBV$, and we prove that $SBD^p$ functions are approximately continuous
${\mathcal{H}}^{n-1}$-a.e. away from the jump set. On the negative side, we
construct a function which is $BD$ but not in $BV$ and has distributional
strain consisting only of a jump part, and one which has a distributional
strain consisting of only a Cantor part.
