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Larry Jones wrote:
> Frank Hemer writes:
>>The U/P in this case provides some extra information:
>>U: new file
>>P: file already there but new revision
> 
> 
> That is not correct -- the server is always at liberty to do a regular
> update rather than a patch.  The current code compares the size of the
> patch and the size of the actual file and sends whichever is smaller.

Not to mention the (admittedly rare) occasions where the server first
tries to send a patch, but the checksum fails, so the server then
resends the entire file.

- --
Jim Hyslop
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