Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Binary Diff System in Arch

[Jan Hudec]

On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 21:13:40 +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 15:16, Sam Phillips wrote:
> >      I'm starting to contemplate work on a project, and I want to use
> >  Arch for revision control.  As part of the project I need to be able to
> >  store non-human readable data inside the tree. 
> > 
> >     I remember a thread a while back (it may have been about a year ago
> > now) where people were talking about having some kind of hooks for
> > diff/patch so that you could use Xdelta -- or some other delta'ing tool
> > -- in Arch.  I was wondering if anyone has been working on this and what
> > state this idea is in right now.
> > 
> >     If this needs works and is still worth doing I might take a stab at
> > it soon.
> 
> Basically, the sanest approach is to patch patch and diff to Do The
> Right Thing. All else follows from there.

Well, it does not have to be patch + diff themselves. You could even
have wrappers, that will call patch/diff for text files and something
else for binary ones. Then configure arch to use these instead of
patch/diff.

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