I guess I spoke to soon. I was right concerning xdelta3 using gzip for handling gzipped files, however it doesn't use the -n flag. This gives us the same behaviour as xdelta1, with one minor difference: Method 1. stops working.
Wait. I don't understand something. If it doesn't use the -n flag, how can we produce an md5sum-identical patched file? (The mtime is unpredictable.) This poses an extra problem, or not? I just did an effective test on xdelta3-diffing .tar.gz files and I saw that the patched md5sum indeed differ from the original one :-( Maybe we should search for a gzip header manipulation tool...
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