Re: unified diffs, PLEASE?

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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