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

[David Roundy]

On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 12:03:55PM -0500, Taral wrote:
> 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.

I have no objection to an improved binary patch.  I'm not likely to
implement one, since I have very little interest in binary files.
-- 
David Roundy
http://www.abridgegame.org
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