From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Peter Eriksen" Subject: Re: [RFH] Exploration of an alternative diff_delta() algorithm Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2006 19:34:09 +0200 Message-ID: <20060409173409.GB23908@erlang.gbar.dtu.dk> References: <20060409143117.GA23908@erlang.gbar.dtu.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Apr 09 19:34:21 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FSdni-0002hd-V1 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sun, 09 Apr 2006 19:34:15 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750825AbWDIReM (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:34:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750826AbWDIReL (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:34:11 -0400 Received: from erlang.gbar.dtu.dk ([192.38.95.25]:47506 "HELO erlang.gbar.dtu.dk") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1750825AbWDIReL (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:34:11 -0400 Received: (qmail 17504 invoked by uid 5842); 9 Apr 2006 19:34:09 +0200 To: git@vger.kernel.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.7i Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 01:14:31PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote: ... > Nothing outside diff-delta.c and patch-delta.c is aware of the delta > data format. So if your version is meant to be a transparent > replacement then it should pass all tests. If it doesn't then it is > broken. > > To help you play around you could try the test-delta utility (make > test-delta to build it). > > So: > > test-delta -d file1 file2 delta_file > test-delta -p file1 delta_file file3 > cmp file2 file3 My tests of these kinds doesn't show any errors. Though, if file2 is empty, test-delta writes: "file2: Invalid argument". Peter