On Fri, 20 Jun 2003 16:50:46 +1000 Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> wrote:
> No, you don't. We've done the maths, incremental --ed style diffs are > the way to do this: they make for by far the smallest download, and > minimal archive bloat. ed style diffs can be a problem in that the same diff can be applied multiple times without errors, corrupting your original file. If there was a release number built in the packages file it could be checked before applying, or else a context or unified diff may be better. Glenn
