> may I suggest to use xdelta to produce binary diffs besides
> `diff'? Usually, such diffs are smaller, and addtionally, it is
> not necessary to build all the new files again (which sometimes
> does not work as expected :-)
I don't think we ever produce diffs for binary files.
Maybe a misunderstanding. xdelta should be used not to produce diffs
for binary files but to produce diffs between tar archives, e.g.
xdelta delta lilypond-1.1.53.tar.gz lilypond-1.1.54.tar.gz \
lilypond-1.1.53-1.1.54.xdelta
teTeX beta releases have been distributed that way.
btw,
dokkum:~/usr/src/lilypond$ locate xdelta
/usr/X11R6/include/X11/extensions/lbxdeltastr.h
Not this one. Try
ftp://ftp.xcf.berkeley.edu/pub/xdelta/
Werner
