On 1/24/07, Andreas Gruenbacher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Mitch,
On Wednesday 24 January 2007 11:34, Mitch Davis wrote:
> I'm using quilt to manage a series of patches which reflect the
> changes I've made to a large tree of source. One of those changes was
> to replace some small .gif web graphics with new images.
thanks for posting this. One very stupid idea that probably won't go anywhere:
couldn't we build support for binary diffs into GNU diff and patch?
It seems the logical place to put it, however I'd be surprised if it
ever happens:
- It would add bzip and xdelta dependencies to diff and patch.
- The diff format has seemed sacred for a long time (but recent
alterations such as the git extensions may slaughter that cow)
- This is just an opinion but the GNU diff and patch people seem very
conservative and not interested in new features. For example, I found
a bug in patch -D in about 1998, it was reported at least once to GNU
in 2002, and it's still unfixed in the latest GNU patch 2.5.4.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=140247
The question still stands: Is anyone else interested in this? Is
there any need for quilt to support changes to binary files?
Regards,
Mitch.
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