[darcs-users] Clever idea for storing binaries, comments?

[Taral]

On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 12:25:55PM +1300, Quag wrote:
> I had a look at xdelta3 (http://xdelta.org/xdelta3.html) a little
> while ago. There are a few limitations: 1) it is a C library (although
> it is small), 2) It only creates a one-way diff src->target, so the
> patch would have to store two diffs which would require both the old
> and new binary files twice.

xdelta3 is garbage. Look up 'bsdiff'. It would be possible to augment
the algorithm with a small amount of extra metadata that would enable
reversibility.

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