On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 9:31 PM Ed Maste <ema...@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Thu, 14 Mar 2019 at 22:39, Rodney W. Grimes > <free...@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> wrote: > > > > 4. There is no easy way to show > > "changed byte at offset 0x432 from 0xef to 0xfe" > > But this is not that easy with uuencoded files, either - I'd just end > up uudecoding both files before running cmp -x. And for the case under > discussion here (firmware files) we treat them as opaque binary > objects; comparing them is generally not interesting anyway. >
All binaries in the tree are versioned opaque objects. #4 isn't a use case we care about, nor is it something we can to today. > > Do we have a decent binary diff and binary patch tool? > > We have bsdiff and bspatch, but their output is not designed for human > consumption or editing. > IIRC, git also has a way to transition from one binary to another in an externalized fashion. Warner _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
