From: | Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com> |
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To: | Wiseguy <noone(at)all(dot)com> |
Cc: | pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: unified diffs, PLEASE? |
Date: | 2004-02-02 16:20:01 |
Message-ID: | 401E78B1.9080402@Yahoo.com |
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Wiseguy wrote:
> Is there a good reason why minor source revisions are not posted to
> the ftp mirrors as unified diff patchfiles? I mean, both 7.4.0 and
> 7.4.1 were nearly 10MB in size as bz2 archives. That's a 40 minute
> download per file for a 56kb modem connection. Whereas, I created a
> bz2 patchfile from 7.4.0 to 7.4.1 that was a mere 100KB: 1% that size.
>
> My suggestion:
>
> post minor revision changes as unified diff patchfiles
> on the mirror sites. The sourcecode base is getting large enough to
> justify this.
You can use anon-CVS to get that diff. Or even cvsup after every release
tagging to have the entire revision history with all commit messages.
Jan
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