On Friday, 9 July 1999, Han-Wen Nienhuys writes:
> following advice from Werner Lemberg, I will start making xdeltas
> available for the tarballs of LilyPond. xdelta is like diff(1) and
> patch(1) combined, but more efficient.
>
> Usage:
>
> xdelta patch lilypond-1.1.54-1.1.55.xd lilypond-1.1.54.tar.gz
>
> produces lilypond-1.1.55.tar.gz, just identical (up to compression
> dates) to the one on the FTP site. The advantages are obvious:
>
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 hanwen staff 185342 Jul 9 15:09 lilypond-1.1.55.diff.gz
> -rw-r--r-- 1 hanwen staff 44119 Jul 9 15:09 lilypond-1.1.54-1.1.55.
+ xd
Hmm, won't people be less tempted to *look* at the changes?
> You can grab xdelta from ftp://ftp.xcf.berkeley.edu/pub/xdelta/
Jan.
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