From: Rogan Dawes <discard@dawes.za.net>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Show binary file size change in diff --stat
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 23:27:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45E5F3D4.8000509@dawes.za.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0702282042000.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, 28 Feb 2007, Rogan Dawes wrote:
>
>> How about showing the size of the changes between the 2 files via the
>> libxdiff binary patch function?
>
> I briefly considered this, too. But what would it tell you in the case of
> a jpg? I think it has more disadvantages than advantages...
>
> Ciao,
> Dscho
It would still tell you the extent of the changes. i.e. Did we change
only 10 bytes of the file, or is it a dramatic change?
This is exactly what the text statistics show. +(new lines + modified
lines) -(deleted lines + modified lines)
Instead of having a "line-based" record size, simply use individual
bytes, since binary files don't have lines (most of them, anyway!).
Rogan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-28 21:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-28 13:03 [PATCH] Show binary file size change in diff --stat Andy Parkins
2007-02-28 14:44 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-02-28 14:51 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-02-28 15:15 ` Andy Parkins
2007-02-28 15:37 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-02-28 18:42 ` Andy Parkins
2007-02-28 19:41 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-02-28 15:26 ` Andy Parkins
2007-02-28 18:58 ` Rogan Dawes
2007-02-28 19:42 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-02-28 21:27 ` Rogan Dawes [this message]
2007-03-01 1:09 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-03-01 6:58 ` Rogan Dawes
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-04-04 13:14 Andy Parkins
2007-04-04 13:34 ` Rogan Dawes
2007-04-04 14:40 ` Geert Bosch
2007-04-04 16:00 ` Rogan Dawes
2007-04-04 14:40 ` Andy Parkins
2007-04-04 15:51 ` Rogan Dawes
2007-04-04 16:22 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-04-04 16:26 ` Rogan Dawes
2007-04-04 16:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-04-04 16:59 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-04-04 17:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-04-04 17:47 ` Junio C Hamano
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