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[Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>]

On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 10:18:48AM +0100, Arwed von Merkatz wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 08:36:16PM -0800, Seth Alan Woolley wrote:
> [snip] 
> > Why do I think xdelta is bad?  It's relatively unmaintained, and it has
> > no bzip2 support.  No bzip2 support is the killer for me.  If we do use
> > xdelta, we should ignore the built-in tar.gz support and do the delta on
> > .tars (the delta itself would be gzipped, of course, for transit).  I
> > was going to consider just doing diff/patches, but since most version
> > bumps rename the main directory the files are in, diff -Nuar on the
> > directories would be ... useless, unless we could work around that with
> > custom coding.  Getting useful bzip2 support put directly into xdelta
> > would be really nice, too, but I think it's non-trivial (but a better C
> > coder than I could certainly take a shot at it).
> 
> I thought xdelta was a true binary diff that wouldn't need to support
> file formats. If i was mistaken with that, there _is_ a real binary diff
> named zidrav [0]. It's real purpose is to repair files that got
> corrupted during a transfer, but if i remember correctly (it's been some
> time since i used it) it could be used for the same purpose as xdelta.
> 
> [0] http://sourceforge.net/projects/zidrav
 
Replying to myself here, zidrav only works for files with the same size
unfortunately.

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