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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] File-tpye plug-in architecture for Arch?


From: Robert Collins
Subject: Re: [Gnu-arch-users] File-tpye plug-in architecture for Arch?
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 21:35:20 +1100

On Fri, 2003-12-19 at 10:52, Tom Lord wrote:
> I think you are basically right but.....
> 
> As a practical matter, the foundational problem to solve first is the
> "diff/patch" problem.
> 
> Can you make a diff-like and patch-like pair of tools (and, ideally, a
> diff3-like tool) that are specialized for OO files?   That interact
> very well with OO editors and so forth?
> 
> Do that part first --- the arch part, after that, is pretty easy.

What about xdelta for binary files?

I've encountered a number of situations recently, where I've been unable
to use arch to revision control binary-file containing projects - due to
the size overhead.

Rob
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